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get current user from actioncontext in javascript

bvsoest — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:04:21 GMT

Hi,I need some help accomplishing the following:I created a custom action, Subscribe, and added it to the space menu. This action triggers a javascript and gets actionContext.id as it's parameter. Using search.findnode I can find the node.In the script I would also like to get the current user.How c

Re: get current user from actioncontext in javascript

kevinr — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:36:01 GMT

There is an object in the default script model called 'person' - it represents the current user node - see the javascript API docs for info on the objects available.

You can pass values from the actionContext node such as a property value e.g. actionContext.properties["cm:description"].

Thanks,

Kevin