[Building Sakai] Display logged in user First Name in header area

[Feliz Gouveia]

We show the user name next to the logout button. Maybe this can help:

https://elearning.ufp.pt/sakai-patches/2.5.1/Portal_SAK-10492.patch


On 4 November 2013 22:11, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kim
>
> Have a look in the HTML that is output. If it's not there, the portal may
> not be outputting it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 5 Nov 2013, at 4:39, "Wilson, Kimberly" <wilsonk at mail.amc.edu> wrote:
>
>  Hi Steve:
>
>
>
> I added this to my sakai.properties:
>
>
>
> # enable/disable user login information next to logout link
>
> display.userlogin.info=true
>
>
>
> I restarted our tomcat server
>
>
>
> But I do not see the login information next to the logout link as
> explained in this jira issue:
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-10492
>
>
>
> Is there something else I need to do in the portal.css ?
>
>
>
> *Kim Wilson*, MSCIS | Systems Analyst – IS Academic Systems | Albany
> Medical Center | 518-264-1055
>
>
>
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>
>
> *From:* Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>]
>
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 2, 2013 6:09 AM
> *To:* Schauer, Christopher R
> *Cc:* sakai-dev; Wilson, Kimberly
> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Display logged in user First Name in
> header area
>
>
>
> This is already possible. display.userlogin.info=true though you might
> need to customise the data here if you just want the first name.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> sent from mobile device
>
> On 02/11/2013 8:53 PM, "Schauer, Christopher R" <cschauer at txstate.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Kim,
>
>
>
> One possibility would be to add it in
> 'portal/portal-render-engine-impl/pack/src/webapp/vm/neoskin/site.vm'. That
> is the velocity file that is used to render the header area. The handler
> for that view is at
> 'portal/portal-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/portal/charon/handlers/SiteHandler.java'
> and you can add the user's first name to the context there. The userId is
> in the session and you can use UserDirectoryService.getUser(userId) to get
> the User object for the current user.
>
>
>
> -Chris
>
>
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> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Wilson, Kimberly [
> wilsonk at mail.amc.edu]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 01, 2013 3:31 PM
> *To:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] Display logged in user First Name in header
> area
>
> Hi:
>
>
>
> I’ve been modifying our Sakai portal.css for our 2.9.3 upcoming release
>
>
>
> I need to figure out how to display the logged in user’s first name in a
> Welcome message in the header of the page
>
>
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?  Maybe with jQuery or Javascript?
>
>
>
> I don’t know how to call the first name from the logged in user
> information.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> *Kim Wilson*, MSCIS | Systems Analyst – IS Academic Systems | Albany
> Medical Center | 518-264-1055
>
>
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