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Visitor account management

Set up visitor account management in User Generated Content as a standalone feature, integrated with Audience Manager, or integrated with an external system.

User Generated Content ships with two sample Web pages, an ASP.NET page and a JSP page, demonstrating how to interact with User Generated Content for identification and authentication of users. In this sample content, the comment is submitted along with a user name and e-mail address supplied by the user.

You can find this sample content on the installation media in the folder Content Delivery\resources\samples\ugc\, subfolder java\ or dotnet\ .

You can manage visitor accounts as follows:
Type of setupDescription
StandaloneIf Audience Manager is not set up for your SDL Tridion Sites installation, a ll visitor accounts are managed in the User Generated Content database itself. Visitors are identified using cookies only.
Integrated with Audience ManagerIf Audience Manager is set up for your SDL Tridion Sites installation, you can integrate with its Contacts.
Integrated with an external systemThis option requires you to handle the identification of visitors through your external system, and supply the unique external ID associated with a visitor account in that system to the User Generated Content database.