Storyline 360: Unable to fetch user name from LMS using javascript

Jun 16, 2020

I could really use any help or direction. I am using a simple javascript that was shown in various community discussions and appears to work for others. I want to create a custom certificate which user can print when he passes the course and for that, I want to fetch user name from LMS using javascript.

It isn't working for me!

function findLMSAPI(win) {
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;
else if (win.parent == win) return null;
else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}

var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
var myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
var array = myName.split(',');
var newName1 = array[1] + ' ' + array[0];
player.SetVar("newName", newName1);

I'm attaching a sample story file with the javascript code I'm using.

Test.story

3 Replies

Sam Hill
Hero

almost 4 years ago06/17/20 at 10:01 am (UTC)

Hi Shipra, the following code is valid:

var student = lmsAPI.GetStudentName().split(', ');
var player  = GetPlayer();
player.SetVar('newName', student[1]+' '+student[0]);

Shipra Jain
Author

almost 4 years ago06/17/20 at 12:51 pm (UTC)

Hi Sam, Thanks for replying but its not working! (I replaced my js code with the above)

Sam Hill
Hero

almost 4 years ago06/18/20 at 12:49 pm (UTC)

Hi Shipra, have you tried opening up the browser console and accessing the values directly using the method above, or place some output from your script using console.log.

Storyline 360: Unable to fetch user name from LMS using javascript

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