How can I embed the lower case name of the logged in user into some text?

[Simon Hardy-Francis]

I want some kind of mechanism so that I can embed a URL into a confluence page wiki markup so that the user name is dynamic, e.g. if I'm logged in as 'Simon Hardy-Francis' then I want the URL to read http://example.com/simon/blah and if I'm logged in as 'Joe Smith' I want the URL to read http://example.com/joe/blah. Is it possible to use some kind of macro in the wiki markup to achieve this? Thanks, Simon

[David at David Simpson Apps · Accepted solution]

Create a user macro {first-word-in-display-name} containing this (with no spaces before or after):

$action.remoteUser.displayName.toLowerCase().replaceAll("\s(.*)","")

Then you can use:

http://example.com/{user-first-name-to-lower-case}/foo</pre<>>

[David at David Simpson Apps]

This assumes you want the first name

i.e.

• Simon Hardy-Francis => simon
• Joe Bloggs => joe

[Kevin Buchs]

With a reasonable number of users on a fixed list, I would suggest that {show-if} would work and could be used to create working hyperlinks. Some script or programming editor can be used to generate the list. This macro will cause the enclosed contents to only be shown to the listed user. You would need one of these for each user.

[David Peterson]

Hi Simon,

You can use the Reporting Plugin or the Replace and Render plugin in combination with the User Info Plugin (I think). I'm not so familiar with the latter two, so here's the Reporting Plugin method:

{report-on:injected=true}http://example.com/%global:current user > user:name%/blah{report-on}

Hope that helps!

Regards,

David Peterson

[Kevin Buchs]

You want to create a valid hyper-linked URL or just some text? How many users? Is the list known and fixed?