How to change user's primary-login via API

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Box Product Support

• December 08, 2016 16:07

Trying to change primary-login API via Box Content API

-Request
https://api.box.com/2.0/users/xxxxxxxxxxxx
{"login":"******@example.com"}

But response is the following:

-Response
{
"type": "error",
"status": 400,
"code": "bad_request",
"context_info":{
"errors":[
{
"reason": "invalid_parameter",
"name": "new_primary_email",
"message": "Invalid value '******@example.com'."
}
]
},
"help_url": "http://developers.box.com/docs/#errors",
"message": "Bad Request",
"request_id": "***************************"
}

This user has no email aliases.

Is there only way↓ to change user's login?
1.add new login(mail) as email aliases
2.change primary-login (new login(mail))
3.remove old login(mail) from email aliases

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  szinski

  • July 14, 2017 13:19

  So, is this true? To change a user's login you have to do the following steps?

   

  1. Create a new email alias

  2. Set login to new alias

  3. Delete old alias

   

  Seems like a lot of work.

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  kendomen

  • July 14, 2017 13:33

  Yes.  I had to do that and also add  {is_confirmed: true} to the new email.  This is an example in node:

   

  // 1.  Add new emailAlias
  adminAPIClient.users.addEmailAlias(userId, newEmail, {is_confirmed: true}, function (err, newAlias) {
  
          // 2.  update user login with new email alias.  This makes the former login an email alias 
          adminAPIClient.users.update(userId, {login: newEmail}, function (err, updatedUser) {                    
              console.log(updatedUser);                                   
              
              // 3.  get the last emailAlias for this user which equals former login
              adminAPIClient.users.getEmailAliases(userId, function (err, emailAliases) {       
                  var emailAliasId = emailAliases.entries[emailAliases.entries.length -1].id;
                  
                  // 4.  remove the last emailAlias
                  adminAPIClient.users.removeEmailAlias(userId, emailAliasId, function (err, cleanedUpUser) {                    
                        
                  });
              });
          });    
  });

   

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  kendomen

  • July 14, 2017 13:38

  We have a boxadmin app that does just that but it also transfers the content if the new email alias is an existing user.

   

  

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  cfarley

  • March 15, 2019 08:56

  I have been unsuccessful in trying to add an email address and assigning is_confirmed to true. Does this still work for you?  Thanks

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  iancrew

  • March 15, 2019 09:03

  Hi  :

   

  Two clarifying questions:

   

  1. Is the alias you're adding in one of the domains that is associated with your Box Enterprise? If so, is_confirmed should automatically go to "true."
  2. If your Box Enterprise does not use SSO, has the user who you're adding the alias to logged into their account at least once?

  Cheers,

   

  Ian Crew

  UC Berkeley

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