I need an applescript to extract the user name from the OSX and place it in a field in a FM file. I think it's the short name that I need. I don't know if there's an equivalent for OS9, but if so, to extract that also would be cool.

...any takers?

Mac OS 10

tell application "System Events"

set theuser to full name of current user

end tell

-- tell application "FileMaker Pro"

set cell "name" of current record of layout "layout" to theuser

-- end tell

Thanx a heap!

I assume that to get the short name is to substitute 'full name' with 'short name'?

Juste "name"

set theuser to name of current user

Thanx a bunch!!