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Retrieve LMS User Name as Variable
I know you can have a user fill in a text box with their name and then later use that variable for personalization. What we would like to do is programmatically retrieve the user name from the LMS....
Have been using the methods listed in the thread for years to get this to work with HTML5.
//this might not be required depending on how your LMS nests the API. Try with then comment out if it does not work in a test publish.
lmsAPI=parent;
//This splits the username sent by the LMS by the comma and creates a string Firstname Lastname.
var userName=lmsAPI.GetStudentName().split(',')[1]+" "+lmsAPI.GetStudentName().split(',')[0];
//get storyline's player
var player=GetPlayer();
//set a player variable in your storyline file to the string created above. Make sure the variable exists in Storyline.
player.SetVar("storylineNameVariable",userName);
Works every time for me in HTML5.
