JavaScript and environment variables

Sep 12, 2013

Tony Ludwikowski
By Tony Ludwikowski

Has anyone tried, or does anyone know of anyone that has success with, trying to grab the windows %username% variable(or similar) and making it a hidden text variable in StoryLine?

Here's the whole of it.

Our employees have individual domain user accounts. I'd like for them to be able to open a course that I host on our intranet, have the course pull the variable based on who's logged in vs user input. Then at the end, instead of prompting for a name with printing the results (report.html) have it use the username variable info.

In Studio '09 I'm using a custom report.html but it replies on the user putting their name in the field before printing. Not a big deal. Functional. But it'd be nicer to have it done automatically since the info is available through the OS variables.

3 Replies
Tony Ludwikowski
over 10 years ago09/23/13 at 4:31 am (UTC)

I had a random idea that may be a solution for this. Not sure.Haven't had the time to sit with it and work it out.

I'm hosting my courses on a SharePoint intranet site. Instead of being so wrapped around the OS variable it occurred to me that I may be able to use the SPUser class to get a user name based on the login.

Steve Flowers
over 10 years ago09/23/13 at 5:41 am (UTC)

You'd need some kind of intermediary to grab the username. JavaScript wouldn't be able to access that on its own. Your idea for Sharepoint is a good one. 

I've plucked usernames from a portal that launched a Storyline file. As long as the place where the username appears is consistent, you shouldn't have trouble getting it with something like this:

var oDom = top.opener.document; 
var userMail=oDom.getElementsByTagName('li')[0].innerHTML.split('&')[0];
This will grab the contents of the first list item on the page that launched the SL file. 

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