[Building Sakai] Is there a way to get the username?

[Paul Dagnall]

Adrian - Is the UserDirectoryService exposed to the content area editable
by the ckeditor though? My goal is for content creators to be able to make
lessonbuilder content that would include such a link.

Paul Dagnall
Application Developer & Administrator
University of Dayton


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> So, you're rendering a link in a lessonbuilder page, and you want to embed
> the current user's name in it? In that case, just use
> UserDirectoryService.getCurrentUser, which will get you a Sakai User
> object. You can then call getFirstName, getLastName and getEid on that
> object.
>
> If you have a look in ShowPageProducer, you'll see examples of that method
> in use.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
>
> On 14 January 2014 14:51, Paul Dagnall <pdagnall1 at udayton.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> Does anyone know of a way to get the current user's username and expose
>> it so it can be accessed by that user from a sakai content page?
>>
>> There is an external system we are trying to access from a html link in
>> the Lessons tool. Basically we'd like the link to be something like this:
>>
>> http://externalSystem.edu/program.php?userName=*<current user name>*
>> &otherParam=value
>>
>> I know there's a webservice that will get me the user name if I have the
>> session id, which I don't think is available in that scope.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Paul Dagnall
>> Application Developer & Administrator
>> University of Dayton
>>
>>
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