Redirect On First-Time Login

The solution to your problem requires the use of the Workflow-NG module. Just go through the following steps and you'll have a one time redirection set up

1. Create a role 'First Timers' for your first time users. Users should not have the ability to add themselves to this role.
2. Using Workflow-NG, set up a rule initiated by the event "User Registered" that assigns the user to the role "First Timers"
3. Set up another rule, initiated by the event "User Log In" that redirects the user to the required destination AND removes the user from the role "First Timers"

That's it! All users get set to be First Timers when they register but after login they are redirected and stripped of their First Timer status so they follow normal log in procedures later on.

I need to do this same thing, but I am using Drupal 6 and it appears the workflow ng module is only for Drupal 5. Is there another way to accomplish this in Drupal 6?

I can get the trigger to work on to add users to a role on login or registration, but i can redirect to edit password screen or any other page... i think i have content profile module enabled.. could that be breaking it? Am i supposed to check 'load user account' as the action?!

Rules can be used in D6 as noted by takinola, using an initial role as aflage to track new users
However, I've found that this interferes with the normal procedure of setting a new password for first time users.
i.e. a) have added rules + page direct to a "first login" page,

1. User registers and is send a one-time login via email.
2. User visits link and sees a page like:
Reset password
This is a one-time login for XXX and will expire on 16. July 2011 - 9:40.
Click on this button to login to the site and change your password.
This login can be used only once
3. After clicking on Login, the user is redirected to /user/XXX/edit, where he/she can set a password.
4. User is logged in an operational.

When the rule is active, step 4 sis skipped, i.e. the user is not presented with a change to set his password.

Some related posts: #1062646: First time login rule with verification email.
I'll follow up on #480584: Rule to redirect on login, except on one-time login and password reset, seems more appropriate for fixing the above.

If you're developing a module - Could you not see if $account->created == $account->access on hook_user $op = 'login'?

UPDATE: The answer is no. They're not set equal on first time log in.

For future reference, I created a module to handle future logins with the context-module. http://drupal.org/project/first_login creates a context condition plugin and views handlers as well as couple useful set/get functions for custom handling.

For redirections within context, try using it with http://drupal.org/project/context_redirect.
Otherwise, I'm considering triggers for use with rules. Currently D6 is available, D7 version is coming soon.

Here is a snippet for Drupal 7.
Executed only on user's first time login using hook_user_login().

<?php
/**
 * Implements hook_user_login().
 */
function MODULENAME_user_login(&$edit, $account) {
  // If this is user's first time log-in.
  if ($account->access == 0) {
    // Execute your code.
  }
}
?>

All,

This is actually very simple in D7 using the Rules module. All you have to do is see if the value of the user's Last Access field is empty. When an account is created, the initial value of the Last Access is empty.

The value of this field is not set until sometime AFTER the rules have been run. So, all you have to do is setup a conditions in rules that check:

• Data value is empty
• site:current-user:last-access

Here is an export of my rule and it has been working fine. If anyone finds any issues, please let me know. You should be able to import this rule into your site.

{ "rules_first_time_login" : {
"LABEL" : "first time login",
"PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
"WEIGHT" : "1",
"OWNER" : "rules",
"REQUIRES" : [ "rules" ],
"ON" : { "user_login" : [] },
"IF" : [
{ "data_is_empty" : { "data" : [ "site:current-user:last-access" ] } },
{ "user_has_role" : { "account" : [ "account" ], "roles" : { "value" : { "16" : "16" } } } }
],
"DO" : [
{ "drupal_message" : { "message" : "Welcome to Drupal Camp Florida. Please submit your session proposal below." } },
{ "redirect" : { "url" : "node\/add\/sess?destination=\/admin\/dashboard" } }
]
}
}

The role with a value of "16" is a role of "Speaker".