$User.FirstName not parsing

[moustafa]

Hi,

I have the following snippet of HTML in a layout:

Code: Select all

 
<div id="accountlinks">
                     #if($customer.IsAnonymous)
					   <a class="selectablelink" href="~/Login.aspx">SIGN IN</a>
				     #else
                     <p display="inline" id="welcometext"> 
                     Welcome, $User.FirstName!  
                     <a class="selectablelink" href="~/Logout.aspx">SIGN OUT</a> | <a class="selectablelink" href="~/Members/MyAccount.aspx">MY ACCOUNT</a></p>
				     #end
                   </div>

It correctly displays the login vs. logout links depending on whether the customer is logged in. However, it does not display the customer's name. I also tried ${User.FirstName} but no luck there either.

Any help?

Thanks,
Moustafa

[moustafa]

Just to clarify, it literally displays "$User.FirstName" instead of the customer's name.

[david-ebt]

We use this code:

Code: Select all

#if(!$customer.IsAnonymous)
    Welcome back ${customer.PrimaryAddress.FirstName}
#end

[moustafa]

Thanks, this works, but requires the user to have a primary address and name set up. I didn't have this set up for my own account b/c I am an admin. After I added an address it worked fine.

So the question is whether it's possible for regular customers to have an account without a primary address? If so, this isn't ideal.

Thanks again,
Moustafa

[david-ebt]

If you look at the data structure, the ac_Users table doesn't contain first name or last name. The only way a user has a name is through their primary address, a billing address or a shipping address. If you have access to the SQL Server for your AC store you can run this query and it show you the first name and last name for all users who are not anonymous users.

Code: Select all

select u.UserId, u.UserName, a.FirstName, a.LastName
from ac_Users u
left join ac_Addresses a on u.PrimaryAddressId = a.AddressId
where u.IsAnonymous = 0

In our sites the only users that didn't have a primary address where those who had registered but not order.

[moustafa]

OK, so I guess it'll have to do. Maybe I'll add some logic in the future to make sure the name is defined before displaying the welcome message.

Thanks for your very helpful answers.

Moustafa

[jmestep]

If you do it in a conlib, you could do something like this- show the name for non-anonymous users only.

Code: Select all

 if(!Token.Instance.User.IsAnonymous)
        {
		   if(Token.Instance.User.UserName.IndexOf("@domain.xyz") == -1)
            UserNameLabel.Text = "Hello, " + Token.Instance.User.PrimaryAddress.FirstName
        }

It would probably be something like $User.PrimaryAddress.FirstName in nVelocity.