How can I customize AWS Cognito default confim message? - amazon-cognito

I am using AWS Cognito to verif users' emails by sending verification links to users' email. After users click the links, a default confirm message "Your registration has been confirmed!" is shown. Is there a way to customize this message?
Thank you!

Currently (late June 2018) this still appears to be not supported. It is a pain because users should be redirected to the app in question after confirming their account, but currently they must navigate themselves.
There is a proposed workaround (essentially customizing the confirmation e-mail to send the user to your own API that performs the confirmation in a lambda), but I have not tried it. There does appear to be demand for this and AWS is aware of it as a feature request. I've seen them adding more customization abilities to the Cognito console recently, so keep checking there for updates.

If you're using the Cognito-hosted pages, you only get what you get which is going to vary depending upon when you're reading this message. Here in late 2019, the Cognito-hosted page redirects successful logins and confirmations (of phone/email) to whatever you specified as the redirect URL.
My issue is similar. After the user signs up, I want to customize the CSS of the confirmation page which doesn't appear possible. The confirmation page isn't great because it means that if the user closes the confirmation code entry tab before entering it, then their email is in the system but unconfirmed. And there's no way to confirm it. It's stuck. I'd like to have giant red letters that say "DO NOT CLOSE THIS CONFIRMATION TAB. CHECK YOUR EMAIL FIRST!" but there doesn't appear to be any way to do this at present.
The solution to any of these "how do I customize X of the Cognito-hosted flow" is either (a) look in the available UI customizations or (b) if they aren't available, change to an entirely hosted flow (still Cognito... just using your own pages and URLs).

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The message_post method respect the user's preference. If the user changes the notification option from the user preferences in user form to Handle by Odoo rather than Handle by Emails,the user will not receive emails; instead, they will receive notifications in Odoo's UI.

How do I detect Google account deletion?

I've just started working with Google OAUTH2 in order to add a "Sign in with Google" button to my web site.
According to the "Google+ Platform Developer Policies" section B.2.a.III, if a user deletes their Google account, I must delete all personal information I obtained from the Google API relating to them.
Does this apply to my web application as well? And if so, how do I detect that a user's Google account no longer exists? Surely, a successful login will only occur if the Google account exists; so how can I tell if a previously existing account is no longer there?
Maybe someone has a better approach, but a simple and practical solution would be have a link buried somewhere on your site that allows a user to request account deletion via email (assuming you still possess a valid email for him - if he deletes is Gmail and that's all you have then you have no way to contact him other than manually via phone or something).
The doc you link to says Give users a reasonably convenient way to delete any of their personal information you’ve obtained from the API.
So assuming you still have a valid email address, this would work:
Your FAQ says "What if I want to delete my account?". Links to account deletion page.
Account deletion page: What's your email? _____ (Continue)
Email is sent to user with (securely randomized) confirmation link.
Confirmation link is clicked by user which deletes all of his data from your site.
Success of that process is dependent only on your system and the email arriving.
(If you are concerned about complying to EU data protection law, you might want to implement this feature anyway - since one legally has the right to demand the deletion of one's own personal data.)

Disallowing link from opening in Forward email

we have a use-case wherein a notification email is sent out in response to some postings on forum. This notification emails carry a AHREF link which basically allows to launch the post page from the email itself. Additionally, these links carry an authentication token so that the user don't have to sign in when opening the page. This works fine in the normal use case, but in the scenario when the original recipient forwards the email to some other account we are not sure how we identify that the link is opened from forwarded email address. Can somebody provide some insight ?
There is principally no way for you to detect that a link was clicked in an email that was forwarded vs. an email that you sent directly to someone.
Do not put an authentication bypass in the link if the need to secure your content outweighs the need for user friendliness.
You can weigh allowing the user, once they log in, to set a persistent authentication cookie in the browser they logged in from. That way, if they click a link in an email and that cookie is set, they can get directly into the website. StackOverflow.com works that way, which is convenient and the downside risk is not too great. Fortunately my bank does not work that way. The potential for loss is much greater with home banking.

Mailchimp API (v1.3): addresses added with listSubscribe() don't appear in dashboard

I'm using Mailchimp's API (v1.3) to add email addresses to a subscriber list on one of our sites. Obviously, I'm using listSubscribe() and everything is working fine, for the most part (read: API call returns true, all of the data I'm sending to Mailchimp gets added/updated correctly).
The problem, however, is that whenever a new address is added, the things that are normally supposed to happen (in particular: email notifications to list manager, addresses showing up in the dashboard list status stream) aren't happening.
I've looked around for quite a bit and haven't found anyone with the same issue. Any ideas?
The default action of listSubscribe to add a subscriber is opt-in. This means that when you submit a listSubscribe the subscribed user will get an email asking to confirm their opt-in.
If the user does not follow the link in the email then they will not appear in the dashboard.
You can bypass this by using:
'double_optin' => FALSE,
http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/1.3/listsubscribe.func.php
However this is only recommended for very occasional circumstances (essentially where you are handling the opt-in).
In my case I am not activating a user account until they verify their email address. If let the opt-in email be sent then the user is going to get a number of emails from my web app. I'm being very careful to make sure that they're verifying their subscription and all subscription stuff is being processed by the web app (eg a user unsubscribes within the web app, not via MailChimp).
I talked to the Mailchimp support, and they said those actions won't happen using their public API; there is no way to trigger them.

Using Input Box to Post onto Twitter

Is it possible to post onto Twitter using the sharing URL, for example:
http://twitter.com/home?status=My Status Update
But, instead of creating a link for a user to click, I want to have an input box that will post the content of the input box as the status. So, whatever the user types into the input box would replace My Status Update.
I'm thinking there should be a way to use the form to post onto this URL hxxp://twitter.com/home?status=XXXX where XXXX is the input value. Is this possible?
UPDATE: I realize I described this wrong - it doesn't have to ACTUALLY POST the status, it can take them to Twitter, ask them to logged in (if not, skip), and then put the status update inside the Tweet Box and require the user to press Tweet to send it
Thanks!
No, Twitter require the status to be sent from it's interface.
You can provide the user an option to send status from your site only with twitter application and only after the user authorized your application to sends twits in his account.
Sadly, the solution to this may be more complicated then you think.
Twitter recently switched to full OAuth authentication to interact with their api and to post status updates etc.
In short, to do what you suggest above will require your visitors to log in.
To simplify this, on my websites I use the Official Twitter Tweet Button because I feel that my visitors will trust it the most and will enter in their username/pass without worry.
The Official Twitter Tweet Button page has a builder where you can select various options to change the look and content of the tweet itself.
Be sure to checkout the full documentation for the advanced usage examples and the full reference of properties that can be used with the javascript tweet button
p.s.
On my site I registered for an app so I could include the following js file:
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js?id=MY-APP-ID&v=1"></script>
And my links look something like this:
Tweet