how to display user name or email after login: solved

[tonz]

Does anybody know how to display the user name or email of a logged in user? So that the customer could see that he is logged in as Mr. X?

Thanks,

Tony
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[mazhar]

You can display the Email as

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Token.Instance.User.UserName

and the user first name as bello

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Token.Instance.User.PrimaryAddress.FirstName

Also note that FirstName may be empty depending that user does not specify his first name in primary address.

[tonz]

Thanks for the tip. I think I will use the email because of the fact you mentioned that first name might not be available.

Token.Instance.User.UserName

How shall I call this, can you help with the syntax?

Thanks a lot,

Tony

[mazhar]

Better create a user control in ConLib. Create a file UserInfo.ascx in the ConLib folder and place the following contents in it.

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<%@ Control Language="C#" ClassName="UserInfo" %>
<script runat="server">
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if(!Token.Instance.User.IsAnonymous)
        {
            UserNameLabel.Text = Token.Instance.User.UserName;
        }
    }
</script>
<asp:Label ID="UserNameLabel" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>

and then place it where ever you want to show the Email info. For example in the header scriptlet as below.

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[[ConLib:UserInfo]]

[tonz]

Thanks it worked great! I added an if statement to check if the user is logged in or not, otherwise the control appeared with some cookie data instead of an email.

#if($customer.IsAnonymous)
#else
[[ConLib:Custom/UserInfo]]
#end

Thanks again,

Tony

[Road Rider]

This is what I use in my header:

Logged in as: #if($User.IsAnonymous)You are not logged in #else $User.Username #end


Simple and elegant.

[mazhar]

Better use the current version of the above control. I have modified the control to handle the anonymous user case.

[Road Rider]

What? They both handle it.

[mazhar]

I am taking about this newly added statement

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if(!Token.Instance.User.IsAnonymous)
{
//          
}

When first I posted the code i missed that line.