Types of visitor account management
Set up visitor account management in UGC as a standalone feature, integrated with Audience Manager, or integrated with an external system.
UGC ships with two sample Web pages, an ASP.NET page and a JSP page, which demonstrate how to interact with UGC for identification and authentication of users. In these samples, the comment is submitted along with a user name and e-mail address supplied by the user. You can find these sample pages in the folder Content Delivery\resources\samples\ugc\, subfolder java\ or dotNet\,on the installation media.
UGC lets you manage visitor accounts in the following ways:
- Standalone setup
- If Audience Manager is not set up for your SDL Tridion installation, all visitor accounts are managed in the UGC database itself. Visitors are identified using cookies only.
- Integrated with Audience Manager
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If Audience Manager is set up for your SDL Tridion installation, you can integrate with its Contacts.
- Integrated with an external system
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This 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 UGC database.