# if (contactIdentified) then

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/if-contactidentified-then/6329>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 24, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/if-contactidentified-then/6329 "2016-10-24T10:32:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![denispavliha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@denispavliha](https://forum.mautic.org/u/denispavliha)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/if-contactidentified-then/6329/1 "2016-10-24T10:32:07Z")

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Hi guys,  
  
  
  
I am going to skip the paragraph how Mautic opened a whole new world to me and proved to be everything I dreamt of … yeah, that.  
  
  
  
I’ll ask a specific question - **how could I determine (on my website) if the contact who’s browsing the webpage has already been identified (i.e. left his/her email) or not?** I have no problems writing a custom service, looking at the tables in MySQL and extracting those data out forming a nice JSON.  
  
  
  
I just don’t know what to look for - the included mtc.js obiously generates some GUID to bind a visitor to a unique contact in mautic (probably based on IP and user-agent string, I presume?).  
  
  
  
Should I explain further on, or have I made my question clear enough so that someone could give me a tip?  
  
  
  
Thanks and Best regards,  
  
Denis  
  
  
  
PS: why I need this? I’d like to open a popup with a Mautic form to every visitor that has not been identified yet, asking him/her for the email. So I want to code a JS that first looks into Mautic’s SQL to see if the leads is anonymous or not, and if anonymous it will trigger the popup. I haven’t found an easier way to do this.

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**Author:** ![denispavliha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@denispavliha](https://forum.mautic.org/u/denispavliha)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/if-contactidentified-then/6329/2 "2016-10-24T10:32:07Z")

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Hi guys,

I am going to skip the paragraph how Mautic opened a whole new world to me and proved to be everything I dreamt of … yeah, that.

I’ll ask a specific question - how could I determine (on my website) if the contact who’s browsing the webpage has already been identified (i.e. left his/her email) or not? I have no problems writing a custom service, looking at the tables in MySQL and extracting those data out forming a nice JSON.

I just don’t know what to look for - the included mtc.js obiously generates some GUID to bind a visitor to a unique contact in mautic (probably based on IP and user-agent string, I presume?).

Should I explain further on, or have I made my question clear enough so that someone could give me a tip?

Thanks and Best regards,  
Denis

PS: why I need this? I’d like to open a popup with a Mautic form to every visitor that has not been identified yet, asking him/her for the email. So I want to code a JS that first looks into Mautic’s SQL to see if the leads is anonymous or not, and if anonymous it will trigger the popup. I haven’t found an easier way to do this.

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**Author:** ![denispavliha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@denispavliha](https://forum.mautic.org/u/denispavliha)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/if-contactidentified-then/6329/3 "2016-10-24T11:36:59Z")

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…or I should just use the provided Focus Items I have just discovered instead.