topic How to get the user's name from a custom dialog? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-get-the-user-s-name-from-a-custom-dialog/m-p/237908#M191038 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I implemented a custom dialog by extending BaseDialogBean as seen on the wiki:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Adding_a_Custom_Dialog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Adding_a_Custom_Dialog</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In the Java code, I need the id of the current user.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It is probably easy but I could not find where to get this information… I tried a mix of Application.getCurrentUser, this.getActionsContext(), and the methods inherited from BaseDialogBean, but did not find a way to get it… User name or user id or anything that could identify the Alfresco web client user.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks a lot!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:00:20 GMT nicolasraoul 2010-02-02T06:00:20Z How to get the user's name from a custom dialog? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-get-the-user-s-name-from-a-custom-dialog/m-p/237908#M191038 Hello all,I implemented a custom dialog by extending BaseDialogBean as seen on the wiki:http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Adding_a_Custom_DialogIn the Java code, I need the id of the current user.It is probably easy but I could not find where to get this information… I tried a mix of Application.getCurr Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:00:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-get-the-user-s-name-from-a-custom-dialog/m-p/237908#M191038 nicolasraoul 2010-02-02T06:00:20Z Re: How to get the user's name from a custom dialog? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-get-the-user-s-name-from-a-custom-dialog/m-p/237909#M191039 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Try this my friend: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>AuthenticationUtil.getFullyAuthenticatedUser() and this returns the username</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:44:42 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-get-the-user-s-name-from-a-custom-dialog/m-p/237909#M191039 cheffilet 2010-02-05T07:44:42Z Re: How to get the user's name from a custom dialog? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-get-the-user-s-name-from-a-custom-dialog/m-p/237910#M191040 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks my friend!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It gives the name of the current user as a String, such as "admin".</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Class is org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>That's exactly what I needed <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks again!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Nicolas Raoul</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:42:05 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-get-the-user-s-name-from-a-custom-dialog/m-p/237910#M191040 nicolasraoul 2010-02-08T07:42:05Z