Find contactId of currentUser

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I’m new to Wix and want to send a triggeredEmail to the current contact (not member) using TriggeredEmails. emailContact( )

For this I need a contactId of the person who is currently on the site. I’m trying to usewixUsers.currentUser.id but it returns a very long id:

8d2c1a538d05944849f95da0574c7fef07c00bd6374f619dfdb94ad0881bfd0e69fe9e988ef328bc9fb1d1e4544967881e60994d53964e647acf431e4f798bcdf5d25541e3e1d0a198c992ae4bab57a241ce4f577cdc823fa275ef143557fbc47ce64d669e1fccac0af860f398a9ce0cdbadda5f88c4a42289a03ee78c18c24968809bbae20bbf8da72de39c808248d3

while contactId is a simple GUID like ‘8322fe9d-a9ae-4dd2-8496-b2cd6cc04736’

How can I get contactId of the current user?

2

The user id and contact id are different. You need to get the email of the current logged in user, then query it using wix-crm-backend queryContacts() function (This would be need to run on the backend) . When you do that, it shall return an object, which shall have the contact id.
This is a very old way

NEW WAY
You have to use the wix-members API to get the contact ID. Please find the code below

import { currentMember } from 'wix-members-frontend';

// ...

// Sample options value:
// {
//   fieldsets: [ 'FULL' ]
// }

currentMember.getMember(options)
  .then((member) => {
    const id = member._id;
    const fullName = `${member.contactDetails.firstName} ${member.contactDetails.lastName}`;
    return member;
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
  });

This will return the contact id in the member object

4

@wixfreaks, thanks a lost for your answer.

currentMember.getMember() returns undefined for me as I technically don’t have a logged-in user. My scenario is:

  1. a new user fills and submits a form - a contact is created for them automatically in wix
  2. they go to another page of my site where I want to get contactId that was just created

I’ve seen that currentMember API is preferable now but my user is not a member but just a contact. Is it possible to get contactId of a user who is currently browsing and just became a contact?

5

Haven’t tried this myself but you can use the onContactCreated event handler to get and store the contactId from event.entity._id in a variable and then send a triggered email to the stored contact ID.