Retrieve LMS User Name as Variable

I dont know, I avoid writing to scorm because I expect that the course would overwrite what you are attempting

Can I revisit this topic again? Using Phil's JavaScript I can get the student's full name from the LMS no problem. But I'd like to just get the first name to put a little personalization into the training, e.g. "Hi Erika, welcome to today's session...". How would I need to modify the script to pull just the first name?

Here is the full name script:

var player = GetPlayer();

var myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();

var array = myName.split(',');

var newName = array[1] + ' ' + array[0];

player.SetVar("newName", newName);

//myName = player.GetVar('myName');

//player.SetVar("newName", newName);

Thanks as always.

Hi Brett,

You should be good to go this to capture only first name :

var player = GetPlayer();

var myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();

var array = myName.split(',');

var newName = array[0];

player.SetVar("newName", newName);

Hi Alexandros,

Thanks for the speedy reply, the Articulate forums are amazing!

This script almost does it... On our LMS though it pulls down the last name rather than the first. Any thoughts?

That's because the student name is stored as first name last. Set the array[1] to get the first name.

Andrew, that does it. Figured it was something simple like that. Now the only problem is the way names have been entered in our LMS. It looks like some people (me, for example) have their middle initial as part of their first name... [sigh]. Still, it is working and it's better than the whole name.

Thanks to you both.

Brett,

We're both running across the same situation (LMS pulling the middle initial).  Did you find a solution?

Hi Jenny,

Unfortunately, no. I don't know how you could separate out an initial if it was entered as part of a first name. My first thought was to see if there was some kind of script that could limit the name to just one word but quickly realized that, even if were possible, it would mess up a lot of people who have first names like Ellie May and Billie Jean...

Hi all,

I am trying to pull information from the LMS and save into Storyline variables. To start off, I'm trying to grab the user's name. I used the Javascript code shown in this thread but it doesn't work for me.

var player = GetPlayer();

var myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();

var array = myName.split(',');

var newName = array[1] + ' ' + array[0];

player.SetVar("newName", newName);

Do I have to change something based on the particular LMS I'm using? What could be the problem?