Pulling first name from LMS

Hi again Matthew - curly one for you. Any way to remove any punctuation from a last name?

i.e. O'Bryan > obyran

Taylor-Smith > taylorsmith

(I'm looking to arrive at a reference(s) which creates a username which is <firstinitial><surname>

i.e.

Carrie O'Bryan > cobryan

Thanks,

Sal

Matthew

Can I confirm what settings you had when you published it.  I have been on this all day and if i set it to publish with flash or flash as fallback...it works.  If I set to html5 only...it fails.

I have tested on scormcloud and in moodle.

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);

Hi Sally,

Yes those are the variables required in SL.

Lucio

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

Ooops my bad, sorry! Good catch Matthew!!

Nothing works if publishing HTML5 only in Moodle.

Anyone found a fix yet?

Perhaps a stupid question, but do you have javascript enabled on your browsers?

Yes as Leslie says. JavaScript is enabled. It's a definite problem with the script, 360 and Moodle. In storyline 2 the same script works properly.

I'm still on SL2 and will be for a while. Sorry I can't help!!