Getting User Name from LMS into Storyline

Hi,

Try this Javascript.

Add a trigger to execute Javascript inside Storyline

var player = GetPlayer();

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 newName = array[0]; // you can also try array[1]
player.SetVar("VariableName", newName); // VariableName is your Storyline Variable

This is great!! In Exceed LMS, when I set array to 0, it returned the last name. When I set it to 1, it returned the first name.

So I set up two variables: %fname% and %lname% and set two triggers to run that script when the course starts, once with array[0] associated with %lname% and once with array[1] associated with %fname%,

Worked like a charm.

Feel free to test the attached in your LMS.

Here it is with the date. (I added a Complete Course trigger because I had to keep re-enrolling myself as I tested when it was completing by slide count...)

Thank you both so much for sharing! 

BRIDGE LMS (and SL 360) 

(THUMBS UP!) 

(of course uploading a scorm.zip to create a course gets you a "CERTIFICATE" option (et al) on the course's "page" so you don't actually have to do this. But I was like all the way through (except for the name part) and wanted to make it work/ not have wasted my time.

thanks!! 

Thanks everyone!!!  I just tried this within Success Factors and it worked!  Like James, I used "1" which resulted in the first name. 

Thank you Daniel and James! This is great to know.

Does anyone know how this would work on Articulate Online (if at all).

I tried it using the story file James had uploaded, but I'm not getting the user name back (first or last). I have a feeling Articulate Online doesn't store the data as 'StudentName' (maybe?).

It works GREAT. Thanks!

Shouldn’t I use user ID instead of user’s first and last name?
For example, if an organization have 2 or more employees with identical names, it’d be a problem, isn't it?
If so, how can I get the user ID from LMS?

If the first and last name fields are blank in the LMS is there a way to replace the empty string with a fixed text, like "Learner"  or something? Please excuse my lack of JavaScript knowledge.

Hi everyone!

Is there a way to insert the learner name and/or the current date without JavaScript?

Thanks!