g_user object is not defined error

[manikandanvelu]

I am trying to get the current user name in my widget's client script, When I try to use 'g_user.firstName' I'm getting this error g_user not defined in the console.

Can anyone share a sample code to get the current username in client script.

Thanks in advance.

[anurag92]

is it a Portal widget code? or jelly based?

[apurvasharma]

Hi,

If you working on portal widget, then you can fetch the logged in user value such as:

Server Side:- ///Just server side code works and print on HTML such as {{data.sysUserID}}, but if you want to do some work on Client side, then client side code is mentioned

data.sysUserID = gs.getUser().getFullName();

Client Side:-

var c = this;

  c.server.get().then(function(r) {                      

                      c.data.user=r.data.sysUserID});

HTML:- <p>{{c.data.user}}</p>

[Dave Smith1]

Manikandan Velu wrote:
Can anyone share a sample code to get the current username in client script.

Could you share the code you're writing?   Perhaps then people can identify what's causing the error message.

[Shahed Shah1]

I've not seen the g_user object work in Service Portal widgets. What I did find is that some user info can be obtained from an object called NOW in the $window service.

There's useful attributes like:

$window.NOW.user_avatar

$window.NOW.user_display_name

$window.NOW.user_id

$window.NOW.user_initials

$window.NOW.user_name

Hopefully this helps you achieve what you need.