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I have followed a SO answer here to implement a custom Claim:

How to extend available properties of User.Identity

However, my problem is that it never returns a value. Here is my implementation:

using System.Security.Claims;
using System.Security.Principal;

namespace Events.Extensions
{
    public static class IdentityExtensions
    {
        public static string GetCustomUrl(this IIdentity identity)
        {
            var claim = ((ClaimsIdentity)identity).FindFirst("CustomUrl");
            // Test for null to avoid issues during local testing
            return (claim != null) ? claim.Value : string.Empty;
        }
    }
}

namespace Events.Models
{
    public class Member : IdentityUser
    {
        public string CustomUrl { get; set; }
        public async Task<ClaimsIdentity> GenerateUserIdentityAsync(UserManager<Member> manager)
        {
            var userIdentity = await manager.CreateIdentityAsync(this, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
            userIdentity.AddClaim(new Claim("CustomUrl", this.CustomUrl));
            return userIdentity;
        }
    }
}

And now I tried calling it in a view for testing:

<script>alert(@User.Identity.GetCustomUrl());</script>

The value is always nothing, however if I were to change to @User.Identity.GetUserId() then it would return me the Id.

Have I missed a step somewhere?

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It is a string so you should use: alert('@User.Identity.GetCustomUrl()'); Note the quotes, because otherwise 'javascript' searches for an object with the name it returns. Also don't forget to escape the value here, if it could contain single quotes itself.

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  • You were correct on that one. However, I'm trying to now understand why would this statement not work: `@Html.ActionLink("Manage my Profile", "Show", "Members", new {id = @User.Identity.GetCustomUrl()}, new {title = "Manage"})` I am trying to get it to produce a `events/Members/Show/abc` link – Bagzli Feb 07 '16 at 17:05
  • Actually ignore my previous comment, for some reason, it started working all of a sudden, I wonder if I was just having a caching issue. – Bagzli Feb 07 '16 at 17:08