Has anybody out there picked up the login user name from the network?

Right now I am trialing an IWP form in version 6.

I'd like to send users a confirmation email when their record gets safely received by FMP.

I am wondering if it is possible to pick up the username of the user in IWP, from the network.

I could ask them for their email address, but that could cause administration tasks if they make a mistake. Its not the most efficient since their username serves as the root for their email addresse.

Can I achieve this using CWP?

Is there a better answer in FM8?

Thanks and all the best,

Richard

Looks to me like your basic answer is over the web NO, unless you have them login and so get them to fill in a user name.

Edited April 26, 200619 yr by Guest

Thanks newbie.

I found somewhere that the publishers of fmwebschool may be incorporating this in their forthcoming IWP Powerpack third party product.

I will await their news.

Best Regards,

Richard :

Yes, we are actually demoing the IWP Power Pack for a group of developers tonight and will then release a public beta. Our first demonstration should take care of about 12 FileMaker limiations. One of them is a detail log of visitors and ip addresses :

Hey Steve - sorry I missed the official launch of the power pack Beta. Been away for a while.

Glad to hear its coming along. Now I would be happy if the log entry (of a username) in the IWP session can be popped into the record in the server file, or when I later export the data to a more secure file on the server where only the administrator will access it over the network.

Is this something that I can do with the Power Pack?

Finally when do you think the Power Pack will be available?

Regards,

Richard

Hi Richard,

I should have an update on a time frame today. We had to pass a few things through FileMaker legal which took a little time, and we had to make a few changes.

I will post an updated list of the features the first module will include.

In Kindness

Stephen Knight

Get(Accountname) works in FMP8 - though I had trouble getting it to work in a script.

I had to create a variable which called get(accountname) - example g_user = get(AccountName) - then I could happily refer to that variable in any scripts.

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