Pulling first name from LMS

Apr 19, 2017

Sally Milford
By Sally Milford

Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone might be able to put together a step-by-step guide as to how to set up a variable / javascript function for this? (i.e. pulling a user's first name from the LMS).

I've read through this discussion (https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/retrieve-lms-user-name-as-variable) but I'm very green and have had no experience with javascript functions (and only basic variables).

Any help for dummies would be amazing.

Thanks,

Sal

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Sally Milford
7 years ago04/20/17 at 1:07 am (UTC)

LEGEND!!! Thanks so much Matthew – it worked! J

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Sally Milford
7 years ago04/26/17 at 1:44 am (UTC)

Hi Matthew,

Probably a dumb question, but I have various screens which need various combos of first/last/email/first initial etc. Can I set the screens up with the necessary references, then add this full code to 1 trigger on each screen (regardless of whether I need to call all references?)

Will this break the page as it might be calling for references that aren't on this screen? Just trying to see if I can stream line..

Thanks for your continued help with this,

Sal

(FYI I'm building an induction module which needs to display usernames, Outlook logins, etc so this is really useful).

Governance People
almost 7 years ago04/26/17 at 3:22 pm (UTC)

Further testing make it more bizarre (using ScormCloud):

Publish with HTML5 or HTML5+flash fallback - does not work

Publish with Flash or Flash+HTML5 fallback - works if you publish to scorm, but not if you publish to tincan

As I am using scormcloud, can I therefore assume that it is a Storyline bug?

Lucio P
almost 7 years ago04/26/17 at 3:48 pm (UTC)

This should provide the requested results:

var lmsAPI = parent;
var name = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
var id = lmsAPI.GetStudentID();
var nameArray = str.split(" ");
var firstName = nameArray[1];
var firstInitial = firstName.charAt(0);
var lastName = nameArray[0];
var cleanLastName = lastName.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]/g, "");
var userName = firstInitial + cleanLastName;
var userName = userName.toLowerCase();
var player = GetPlayer();
player.SetVar('first_name', firstName);
player.SetVar('last_name', lastName);
player.SetVar('first_initial', firstInitial);
player.SetVar('email', id);
player.SetVar('username', userName);
Sally Milford
almost 7 years ago05/02/17 at 4:20 am (UTC)

Thanks Matthew and Lucio - this is working great :)

Except in one instance, when calling to display the last name, a random comma appears after it.

This is what I have used:

var lmsAPI = parent;
var name = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
var id = lmsAPI.GetStudentID();
var nameArray = str.split(" ");
var firstName = nameArray[1];
var firstInitial = firstName.charAt(0);
var lastName = nameArray[0];
var cleanLastName = lastName.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]/g, "");
var userName = firstInitial + cleanLastName;
var userName = userName.toLowerCase();
var player = GetPlayer();
player.SetVar('first_name', firstName);
player.SetVar('last_name', lastName);
player.SetVar('first_initial', firstInitial);
player.SetVar('email', id);
player.SetVar('username', userName);

This is how the reference appears on the slide:

Username: CORP\%first_name%.%last_name%

This is how it appears when published:

Username: CORP\Sal.Milford,

Surname is definitely just Milford in the LMS. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sal

Governance People
almost 7 years ago05/09/17 at 8:14 pm (UTC)

If I publish courses in flash or flash +html5 fallback...then everything works. If I publish in html5 only or html5 + flash fallback....nothing works, no data is pulled from Moodle. Given it works in flash with the same browser configuration, then I assume javascript is working in the browser. I have tested in Chrome, Edge and Firefox and always get the same result in all browsers.

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