How to customize user name appearance in header bar?

[sumeet_n]

For example, in any demo instance when we log in as admin it says "System Administrator". What if i want to make it look some other way round eg: "Administrator System" / UserID / anything else from user record.?

[User140988]

HI Sumeet,

You can change this in the UI macro "cms_header_login" which holds the code to display the user profile. You may change the script to display what you need.

Regards,

Chandana

[sumeet_n]

hi Chandana,

Thanks for the reply. But i am not sure where exactly the change should be made. I want to change below highlighted logged in users name content. I do not understand the source of this. Can you help me point the exact line of code in that UI Macro?

[User140988]

Hi Sumeet,

In the UI macro, the below code snippet produces the user name. Instead of using gs.getUserDisplayName() you can change that and add your own script to populate the details.

  <j:if test="${!gs.getUser().isXML()}">

              <a href="profile.do" title="${gs.getMessage('My Profile')}" aria-label="${gs.getMessage('My Profile')}"><b>${SNC.GlideHTMLSanitizer.sanitize(gs.getUserDisplayName())}</b></a>$[SP]$[SP]|$[SP]

        </j:if>

        <j:if test="${gs.getUser().isXML()}">

              <b>${SNC.GlideHTMLSanitizer.sanitize(gs.getUserDisplayName())}</b>$[SP]$[SP]|$[SP]

        </j:if>

[sumeet_n]

So i try to remove "gs.getUserDisplayName()" from both the places, and i expect this should not show any thing - just the message "Welcome: ".

I am not sure where am i being wrong.

What would you do if you want to change from Display Name to user id?