automate creating communities user

Question

Would it be possible to automate the process of creating a communities user in Salesforce? I was thinking of a trigger on the contact that would then create the user record with the communities license. Would this be possible at all?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes it should be something like this

Contact con = [select id,email,firstName,lastname,accountId from Contact where Id =:contactId];         

Database.DMLOptions dmo = new Database.DMLOptions();
dmo.EmailHeader.triggerUserEmail = false;       
dmo.EmailHeader.triggerOtherEmail = false;
dmo.EmailHeader.triggerAutoResponseEmail = false;       
dmo.optAllOrNone = false;

// create portal user
string nick = con.email!=null?con.email.substring(0, con.email.indexOf('@')):'';
nick += Datetime.now().getTime();
User newUser = new User(
                    alias = createAlias(con.firstName, con.lastName), 
                    email = con.email, 
                    emailencodingkey = 'UTF-8', 
                    firstname = con.firstName, 
                    lastname = con.lastname, 
                    languagelocalekey = 'en_US', 
                    localesidkey = 'en_US', 
                    contactId = con.Id,
                    timezonesidkey = 'Asia/Dubai', 
                    username = con.email,
                    CommunityNickname = nick,
                    ProfileId = .......,
                    IsActive = true);

newUser.setOptions(dmo);
insert newUser;