Get the Current User Name

Sherry Collins asked on June 3, 2015 17:57

I need to get the current user logged into my website. I thought I was getting it with Eval("NodeOwner"), but that is returning the person who wrote the blog. What would give me who is logged in.

Thanks.

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Brad Vrudney answered on June 3, 2015 22:45

the hash is the signed macro. Kentico does that for security purposes so it knows who created it, and what permissions it has. I think your issue may be that you are using {%%} which is for text transformations, rather than ascx. try changing it to: <%CurrentUser.UserName%>

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Brad Vrudney answered on June 3, 2015 18:24 (last edited on December 10, 2019 02:30)

{%CurrentUser.UserName|(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

You can also expand it to other properties:

<%# GetUserFullName(Eval<int>("UserID")) %>

https://docs.kentico.com/display/K8/Reference+-+Transformation+methods

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Sherry Collins answered on June 3, 2015 21:16 (last edited on December 10, 2019 02:30)

I get very strange results back in my Json string when I use this {%CurrentUser.UserName|(identity)GlobalAdministrator%} data-blogposttitle="<%# Eval("DocumentID")%>"><a href="#"><%#GetBlogLikesCount(Eval<int>("DocumentID"))%> Likes</a></span></div>

Am I doing something wrong?

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