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AndrewRost
Community Member
13 years ago

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....
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DarrenCampbell-
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Is anyone able to share a .story file example where it pulls in a users profile photo from an LMS also? The name comes through perfectly but I don't currently don't have the expertise to re-purpose this and pull in a users photo also. Many thanks everyone, this is the best resource community by far. 

PhilMayor's avatar
PhilMayor
Super Hero
2 years ago

I don’t see how you can pull in a users photo there is nowhere in the scorm standard for this. It maybe you can pull a unique I’d from thee LMS you can compare against a company database and pull the picture from there, but you would need to use a web object as Storyline variables are finite and a base64 image would be too large.

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    DarrenCampbell-
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Ahh thanks Phil, I asked chat GPT which gave me hope here, this is what it recommended

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    // Get the LMS API object
    var lmsAPI = parent.GetAPI();

    // Check if the LMS API is available
    if (lmsAPI) {
    // Get the current user's ID
    var userID = lmsAPI.GetStudentID();

    // Use the user ID to retrieve the profile photo URL
    var profilePhotoURL = getProfilePhotoURL(userID);

    // Update the profile photo in the Storyline content
    updateProfilePhoto(profilePhotoURL);
    } else {
    console.error("LMS API is not available.");
    }

    // Function to retrieve the profile photo URL for the given user ID
    function getProfilePhotoURL(userID) {
    // Add your code here to retrieve the profile photo URL from the LMS for the given user ID
    // Example:
    // return "https://example.com/profile-photos/" + userID + ".jpg";

    return "";
    }

    // Function to update the profile photo in the Storyline content
    function updateProfilePhoto(profilePhotoURL) {
    // Add your code here to update the profile photo in the Storyline content
    // Example:
    // document.getElementById("profile-photo").src = profilePhotoURL;
    }

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    If anyone else or even I do get a working version going I'll add to this thread. 

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