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ScottDellinger's avatar
ScottDellinger
Community Member
8 years ago

How to access xAPI/Tin Can LMS variables in JavaScript

When Storyline 360 publishes a SCORM 1.2 or 2004 package, an entire library of SCORM JavaScript functions are created and can be used inside Storyline (for instance: SCORM_CallLMSGetValue("cmi.core....
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Jürgen_Schoene_'s avatar
Jürgen_Schoene_
Community Member
3 years ago

perhaps a variant of my first solution

function parseName( inURL ){
  const urlParams = new URLSearchParams(inURL.split("?")[1]);

  var name = "unknown";

  if( urlParams.has("actor") ){
    var actor = JSON.parse( urlParams.get("actor") )

    if( "name" in actor ){
      name = actor.name;
    }
  } else {
    console.error( "no 'actor' in url: ", urlParams );
  }

  console.log( "name: " + name );
  return name;
}

var url = window.location.href;
var name = parseName( url );
GetPlayer().SetVar("name", name);

name = actor.name; <- without [0]

 

 

 

  • RobertWebbe-404's avatar
    RobertWebbe-404
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    YES, you did it! Thank you very, very much, you're my hero of the day Jürgen! 🙏😀

  • RobertWebbe-404's avatar
    RobertWebbe-404
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Hi Jürgen (master of javascript), 

    In the course I'm creating at the moment, I like to use the first name only of a learner. So I thought to add a split in the name variable but this is only working for those users who have one first name. Some of the users have multiple first (and last) names so that's not going to work because there is no logic split point.

    In the meantime I found out that when I use "inspect" on the page which is running, I find this in the HTML code:

    enrolment_model:{"id":3959527,"user_id":481786,"course_id":63080,"uuid":"831754a1-31a7-46da-afd9-c55486b698ec","course_admin":0,"hashtag":"","points":5,"score":5,"levels_completed":0,"leaderboard_opt_out":0,"streak_score":"0.0","latest_completed_attempt_id":849316,"created_at":"2023-06-12 09:56:35","updated_at":"2023-06-20 08:52:29","completed_at":null,"mandatory":0,"start_at":"2023-06-20 08:52:29","due_date":null,"expires_at":null,"recompletion_start_date":null,"deleted_at":null,"assigned_type":"User","assigned_id":481786,"from_external_provider":0,"requires_recalculate":0,"is_tutor":true,"has_full_game_access":true,"user":{"id":481786,"org_id":1762,"uuid":"494b54d0-9ed5-4f2d-8a98-7f0bb2dbe12b","username":"robert.webbe@vodafoneziggo.com","sso_id":null,"email":"robert.webbe@vodafoneziggo.com","fname":"Robert","lname":"Webbe","tag_line":"","summary":"","location":

    Do you know a way how to read the fname and lname via javascript?

    Thx!