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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....
After a bit of poking about in Articulate Online, and in this instance, as I want to capture user entered variables and not just show the name in the lesson, I have hit upon the "Guestbook" feature in AO. Any lesson can be preceded with a form/questionnaire prior to launching. As we plan to create learner logins in AO using a list of email addresses and system generated passwords, the Guestbook Automatically captures the email address as the unique identifier. It is possible to add multiple custom questions. Any field has options as to whether the question is mandatory or optional. This will give us all the variables we need and then we can subsequently deliver the training package.
Just a couple of points to note:
1. if you test the Guestbook as Admin and then log in as a second user to test, do this on a different PC else the Guestbook considers you have already completed it. (Clearing cookies does not resolve this).
2. If you delete the lesson and recreate the lesson with the same name, the Guestbook is not deleted and old data fields are included in any new report.
