Get user from file NOT computer....

[Jokez]

Hello!

Im trying the function Get(UserName) but I only get the name of the user on the computer not in the database? How do I get it from the database?

Regards Jocke

Edited October 14, 2005 by Guest

[Steven H. Blackwell]

There is no "user" per se in the database. The value from Get(UserName) is taken from the name in application preferences.

You can use Get(AccountName) to return the name of the active Account, i.e. the Account that opened the file.

If you want the value in some field that you created that is called "User" then you have to extract that in the normal manner through the calculation engine.

HTH

Steven

[Jokez]

Works fine but the field doesnt update if I change the user, but thats probbably some setting I have to change :

[BrentHedden]

From experience, using the Get(UserName) is a pretty unsecure way of providing credentials. Because any user can change this info at any time, with or without having your program open. Unless they are using a runtime, then that changes things.

Make relog a scripted process. Then assign the field needed with the AccountName desired as part of the last script step.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Works fine but the field doesnt update if I change the user, but thats probbably some setting I have to change

That's because there is no connection between the Account Name and the User Name from preferences.

Steven

[-Queue-]

Set the calculation field to be unstored in Storage Options, if you want it to update automatically.