Alias after login

[rutgergrasgroen]

Hi,

I dont see any alias happening after i sign up for an account. This means that all the activity that happens before you sign up, wont be mapped to the registered user. Am i correct? Or am i missing something?

If i am right, is it possible to do an alias call on registration? Then we can make a simple Identify after that.
The alias call can only be done once.

Thanks!

Rutger

[mikebronner]

Hi @rutgergrasgroen, you are right, there is no alias happening. Do you have any suggestions what we should alias to? There really is no unique identifier if the user hasn't logged in yet, is there?

[rutgergrasgroen]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the quick response. The unique id is the distinct id that mixpanel provides for us.

https://help.mixpanel.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004497803-Identity-Management-Best-Practices

This link shows you how to do it. The alias call can only be made once. So i think you have to save the distinct_id to the user database the moment you do the alias call. When the distinct_id is filled, dont call it again. On the link they use the email adres as an unique identifier. But maybe you can use the user_id instead?

[rutgergrasgroen]

Here i a very clear video explaining the process: https://help.mixpanel.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004510946-Identity-Management-Overview-Video

[rutgergrasgroen]

@mikebronner Do you know when you have time to implement this feature?

[rutgergrasgroen]

Nevermind, i fixed it myself. Its very simple to check in blade on auth and then identify. Dito for alias.

[aakarim]

On my signup 'thank you' page I call:

@if (Auth::check())
          const userId = String({{ \Auth::user()->id }});
          mixpanel.alias(userId);
@endif 

This attaches the user's ID to the Mixpanel distinct_id and ensures that pre-registration Mixpanel actions carry over to the registered user.

[mikebronner]

Awesome, thanks @aakarim, I will try to get this implemented soon.

[mischasigtermans]

@mikebronner what about this issue?

[mikebronner]

@mischasigtermans Sorry for the delay on this. I would greatly welcome a PR for this, as I can't promise how soon I can get to this.