Sitecore 9 Tracker.Current.Session.Identify is replaced with Tracker.Current.Session.IdentifyAs

In Sitecore 9, Sitecore have decided to change how you identify named users, i.e. how you match a Contact with a user that is logged into your website. The  Tracker.Current.Session.Identify method is obsolete. It has been replaced with Tracker.Current.Session.IdentifyAs:

// Sitecore 8 identification method:
public static void IdentifyUser(string username)
{
  // Never identify an anonymous user
  if (username.ToLower() == "extranet\\anonymous")
	return;

  if (Tracker.Current != null && Tracker.Current.IsActive && Tracker.Current.Session != null)
  {
	Tracker.Current.Session.Identify(username);
  }
}

// Sitecore 9 identification method:
public static void IdentifyUser(string username)
{
  // Never identify an anonymous user
  if (username.ToLower() == "extranet\\anonymous")
	return;

  string identificationSource = "website";
  if (Tracker.Current != null && Tracker.Current.IsActive && Tracker.Current.Session != null)
  {
	Tracker.Current.Session.IdentifyAs(identificationSource, username);
  }
}

The IdentifyAs() takes 2 parameters:

• Source: A string that identifies where this contact comes from (for instance, “twitter” or “website”)
• Identifier: The identifier itself (username, email, customerID or any other string based on your implementation)

Thanks to Sitecore support for the claification.

MORE TO READ:

• Contact identifiers from doc.sitecore.net
• Sitecore 8 and Tracker.Current.Session.Identify – Overriding expired contact session lock for contact id by briancaos

 

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