Default admin for new tenants

[tcobbfis]

For auto setup of the main tenant, you can declare the admin user in the recipe. Is there a way that I can have a default superuser for all new tenants? Maybe something added to a recipe. If possible, I'd like to set a "new tenant" recipe with this info in it to streamline things

[Piedone]

You can do the same from a recipe for all tenants, if it's viable that you use that recipe for the setup of every tenant.

Alternatively, you can implement IModularTenantEvents.Activated and set a default superuser, if not already done before. This runs when the tenant's shell is started, every time, so you'll need to save a value (like to ISite) that it has run once, not to run it in subsequent starts.

[Piedone]

OK, so it's more than that, then. You can use the tenants API to automatically create tenants, and actually to run their setups as well. Also see https://github.com/Lombiq/Orchard-Core-API-Client.

[tcobbfis]

Giving a try but, I get an error when trying to setup the site. I'm missing something but not sure what is. Do you know?
""Object reference not set to an instance of an object." string

at " await _setupService.SetupAsync(setupContext).ConfigureAwait(false);"

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public async Task<IActionResult> AddInsContact(AddInsContactViewModel model)
{
    if (!ModelState.IsValid) return View(model);

    var shellSettings = new ShellSettings
    {
        Name = model.SiteName,

        RequestUrlPrefix = model.RequestUrlPrefix,
        State = TenantState.Uninitialized,
    };

    shellSettings["TablePrefix"] = model.SiteName;
    shellSettings["RecipeName"] = "SaaS";
    shellSettings["SiteName"] = model.SiteName;
    shellSettings["AdminUsername"] = "admin";
    shellSettings["AdminEmail"] = "contactform@email.com";
    shellSettings["Description"] = "Headless site to process contact forms";

    shellSettings["AdminPassword"] = GetRequiredConfigValue("OrchardCore:OrchardCore_AutoSetup:Tenants:0:AdminPassword");
    shellSettings["DatabaseProvider"] = GetRequiredConfigValue("OrchardCore:DatabaseProvider");
    shellSettings["ConnectionString"] = GetRequiredConfigValue("OrchardCore:ConnectionString");

    await _shellSettingsManager.SaveSettingsAsync(shellSettings).ConfigureAwait(false);
    await _shellHost.ReloadShellContextAsync(shellSettings).ConfigureAwait(false);

    var setupContext = new SetupContext
    {
        ShellSettings = shellSettings,
        Recipe = new RecipeDescriptor { Name = "SaaS" },
        Properties = new Dictionary<string, object>
        {
            ["SiteName"] = model.SiteName,
            ["AdminUsername"] = shellSettings["AdminUsername"],
            ["AdminEmail"] = shellSettings["AdminEmail"],
            ["AdminPassword"] = shellSettings["AdminPassword"],
            ["DatabaseProvider"] = shellSettings["DatabaseProvider"],
            ["DatabaseConnectionString"] = shellSettings["ConnectionString"],
        },
    };

    await _setupService.SetupAsync(setupContext).ConfigureAwait(false);

    return RedirectToAction("Success");
}

[Piedone]

I suggest you use the debugger with Just My Code turned off to see what exactly is null.

[tcobbfis]

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public async Task<IActionResult> AddInsContact(AddInsContactViewModel model)
{
    if (!ModelState.IsValid) return View(model);

    var setupOptions = new TenantSetupOptions
    {
        AdminEmail = "contact@email.com",
        AdminPassword = GetRequiredConfigValue("OrchardCore:OrchardCore_AutoSetup:Tenants:0:AdminPassword"),
        AdminUsername = "admin",
        DatabaseConnectionString = GetRequiredConfigValue("OrchardCore:ConnectionString"),
        DatabaseProvider = GetRequiredConfigValue("OrchardCore:DatabaseProvider"),
        DatabaseSchema = string.Empty,
        DatabaseTablePrefix = model.RequestUrlPrefix,
        FeatureProfile = string.Empty,
        RecipeName = "SaaS",
        RequestUrlHost = string.Empty,
        RequestUrlPrefix = model.RequestUrlPrefix,
        ShellName = string.Empty,
        SiteName = model.SiteName,
        SiteTimeZone = "Europe/Amsterdam",
    };

    var shellSettings = new ShellSettings
    {
        Name = model.SiteName,
        RequestUrlHost = string.Empty,
        RequestUrlPrefix = model.RequestUrlPrefix,
        State = TenantState.Uninitialized,
    };

    var setupContext = await GetSetupContextAsync(setupOptions, shellSettings);

    await _setupService.SetupAsync(setupContext);

    return RedirectToAction("Success");
}