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jmurray
Champion
12 years ago

freemarker for user's first name / last name

Is there no way to get first name and last name via freemarker?   It wouldn't seem so, according to this: https://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/developers-knowledge-base/Context-objects-for-custom-com...
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    AdamN
    12 years ago

    Even without direct access through the freemarker custom context user object, there's a vast amount of information that can be unlocked via the REST API using the rest or restadmin context objects. Details here:

    http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/developers-knowledge-base/Context-objects-for-custom-components-rest/ta-p/9333

     

    Here's a crude example of getting the user's first and last name, and displaying the result: 

    <#assign nameFirst = rest("/users/id/${user.id?c}/settings/name/profile.name_first").value />
<#assign nameLast = rest("/users/id/${user.id?c}/settings/name/profile.name_last").value />

Welcome ${nameFirst!""} ${nameLast!""}

     I hope this helps!

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jmurray
Champion
No, we ended up using a call that returns their username instead. It wasn't really what we wanted, but it got the job done.
AdamN's avatar
AdamN
Khoros Oracle
12 years ago

Even without direct access through the freemarker custom context user object, there's a vast amount of information that can be unlocked via the REST API using the rest or restadmin context objects. Details here:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/developers-knowledge-base/Context-objects-for-custom-components-rest/ta-p/9333

 

Here's a crude example of getting the user's first and last name, and displaying the result: 

<#assign nameFirst = rest("/users/id/${user.id?c}/settings/name/profile.name_first").value />
<#assign nameLast = rest("/users/id/${user.id?c}/settings/name/profile.name_last").value />

Welcome ${nameFirst!""} ${nameLast!""}

 I hope this helps!