How to autopopulate name of logged in user in field on a form?

[Aditya Sinha]

I have a form where a field needs to be populated with name of logged in user.  I am using an on load script however it is not working, (I have checked the UI type to ALL).

function onLoad() {

   //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

   var gq=new GlideRecord("sys_user");

   //alert((g_form.getReference(g_user.userID)));

   var ab=g_user.userID;

   gq.addQuery("user_name",ab);

   gq.query();

   g_form.setValue("field name",gq.name);

}

[Harish Bainsla]

function onLoad() {
// Get the current user's email
var userEmail = g_user.getEmail();

// Set the value of the field
g_form.setValue('field_name', userEmail);
}

make modification as per your need

[SANDEEP28]

@Aditya Sinha Please remember you should not do GlideRecord operations in client script without callback function. You requirement is simple and it is achievable using "g_user" client side API without GlideRecord operations. Always make sure to check what all OOB API's are available at client side and server side. 

function onLoad() {
// g_user.getFullName() will give you first & last name of user
g_form.setValue('field_name', g_user.getFullName());
}

Go to script section of client script and press "control" & "spacebar", you will get all available client side API's 

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[Aditya Sinha]

Hey Sandeep. What if 2 users have the same full name? Wouldn't fetching the sys_id and then the corresponding name to the sys_id from the sys_user table be a more prudent solution to avoid such a case?

[SANDEEP28]

@Aditya Sinha You want  logged in User name right ? So there will be only one user.

"g_user.getFullName()" method will internally take sys ID of logged in User and return Full name of logged in User.

So don't worry about it 🙂

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[Aditya Sinha]

Aah Yes! My bad. Thank you