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LewisEigen
Community Member
8 years ago

Getting student name from the LMS and using it in Articulate

In the LMS we are about to use, we can get the student name since the SCORM runtime variable for it is "cmi.core.student_name".  However, how do I get it as a variable in Articulate at run time? 
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MarciaDougherty
Community Member

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for the quick response. The script you gave me did not do the job, but the link to the discussion did. I am publishing to SCORM 1.2 and using HTML5 with Flash. This is what worked for me. Thanks everyone.

var player = GetPlayer();

function findLMSAPI(win) {
// look in this window
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;

// all done if no parent
else if (win.parent == win) return null;

// climb up to parent window & look there
else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}
var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
var myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
var array = myName.split(',');
var newName = array[1] + ' ' + array[0];
player.SetVar("newName", newName);

Thanks,
Marcia
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AaronMaxAbramow
Community Member
7 years ago

Publishing Using HTML5 on Cornerstone LMS, This code was sort of working but giving me a duplicated name...
By modifying it slightly I was able to get rid of the duplication and have the full name display.

I was hoping to separate the first and last name, but (after 22 attempts) I've decide to settle with it working this way.

The on-slide reference display variable is: %newName%

and the JS code was as follows:

var player = GetPlayer();

function findLMSAPI(win) {
// look in this window
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;

// all done if no parent
else if (win.parent == win) return null;

// climb up to parent window & look there
else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}

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

Thanks for the starting point!

  • ThomasAlbrig879's avatar
    ThomasAlbrig879
    Community Member
    7 years ago

    Do you have a sample course I could look at please? I found TRAINEE.FIRST.NAME and TRAINEE.LAST.NAME in our Email settings on CSOD but I am not sure how to make it work.

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