Passing a username from HTML to Filemaker

[calden]

Please excuse my ignorance on this, but I'm having one tough time. Im trying to pass the username from the Web Security DB login to a field in Filemaker called currentusername using External("Web-ClientName", 0) . Is their a better way of doing this? Plus I'm noticing how limited the current Web Security DB is, I'm looking for a way to limit users from only editing and viewing their own records. Hence the need for External("Web-ClientName", 0).

Any help would be appreciated : )

[cmartin]

What it does

[FMP-ClientUserName] is replaced with the client's user name from HTTP authentication.

Syntax example(s)

Return the client's user name using an HTML file

Your name is: [FMP-ClientUserName]

<!-- After processing it could look like:

Your name is: John

-->

From the CDML reference database.

HTH-

Courtney

[Anatoli]

IMHO -- best is creating your own User db and log users in your system. Then carry the user ID with tokens through your pages.

I did like that 5 systems and it works OK.