gs.getUserName() returns old data

[Community Alums]

Hello,

I am currently displaying the logged in user's first name in the portal using "gs.getUser().getFirstName();".

My first name 'shruthi' is displayed. When I am logged in, I go to my user record and change my first name as "Shruthij". After refreshing the portal homepage, gs.getUser().getFirstName() still shows "Shruthi". When I log out and log in again, it shows "Shruthij".

Why is this session dependent?

Thanks

[The SN Nerd · Accepted solution]

getUser() returns a GlideMemoryRecord, which is loaded when you first log in.



If you want the real-time details, you'd need to either flush the cache (as mentioned above) or do a GlideRecord lookup

var grUser = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
grUser.get(gs.getUserID());