Identify

Hi,

Is there any plan to integrate mixpanel.identify

https://mixpanel.com/docs/getting-started/learn-the-basics

I am trying to track an event related to another user, so I want to identify them in my code with something like this

mixpanel.track 'ReferralClicked'
  objectId: req.body.objectId

Thanks, Bob

[adelespinasse]

@mividtim Saying you need to set $distinct_id is misleading (or possibly the library has changed since you wrote that). You actually need to pass the distinct_id value as the first parameter of people.set, and other properties in the second parameter. So don’t do:

mixpanel.people.set({
  $distinct_id: userId,
  name: name
});

Do this instead:

mixpanel.people.set(
  userId,
  { name: name }
);

I wish the documentation was more clear about the differences between this package and mixpanel-browser. The only place it’s really clear is in the code itself:

https://github.com/mixpanel/mixpanel-node/blob/master/lib/mixpanel-node.js#L352

[mividtim]

I just found in the docs that I should be setting the $distinct_id property, not distinct_id, on people.set calls. It would be great if the README included this property in the user-creation example. There is really no circumstance I can think of using this Node library where you wouldn’t want to specify your own. Otherwise, how would you know what value to use on subsequent tracking calls? You wouldn’t be able to figure out the ID mixpanel created, since you have no user context.