Is it possible to include the confluence username in the URL path of an external image?

[Matt G]

Hi

I'd like to put an image in one of our confluence pages, but include the confluence username of the logged in user within the URL parameters.

For example:

<img src="https://www.google.com.au/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_120x44dp.png?user=ConfluenceUsername" alt="Google" height="44" width="120">

I don't have admin access.

Is this possible.

Cheers,

Matt

[Emilee Romano]

Matt G you ever find a workable solution for this? 

I need this too :(

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You could do this with a user macro, but it begs the question "why?".  Confluence is not going to do anything with the username, as it's pointless and it already knows who the user is,

[Matt G]

Hi Nic - thanks for answering so quickly. How my I do this via the user macro? Would I be concatenating the image url and? then the paramater and using the usermacro output for the username?

Could you describe the process?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Your user macro would construct the url from the information in the http request.

From memory, you'd need something like src="https://url?user=$req.username()"

[Matt G]

This outputs my name on the page. I don't see what I'd replace the report info with to set the src of the image. NB: I can't edit the code.

[Matt G]

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-, clearly the above isn't ok.

Can I use $req.username() is other locations to output the user id? I'm not an admin, I can only edit the pages using the plugins and standard input.

[Matt G]

We're using this for an extra level of internal tracking. That image is on another server, IIS is writing the logs to a DB, including that image and the use ID and the page in question.