NEED example of a user macro that retrieves the current username from the context

[Rian Rian]

I see many of snippets and sample expressions tossed around on this site, but no single coherent example for a non-programmer like myself.

I just want a user macro that will return the current username (not the full name). I want to feed this in to an sql query that will pull information about this user out of a local database.

Come on, easy points for some advanced technician out there! Thanks, R.M.

P.S. Extra points (unofficially) for pointers to some documentation that would show me how to do this myself.

[David at David Simpson Apps · Accepted solution]

Here's a user macro called {my-username} it should be self evident I hope

## Macro title: my-username
## Macro has a body: N
## Body processing: Selected body processing option
## Output: Selected output option
##
## Developed by: My Name
## Date created: dd/mm/yyyy
## Installed by: My Name
$action.remoteUser.name

[Avinash]

Hi, Can i get sample code for displaying current date? I've tried $getDateFormat() and other stuff but it doesnt work! May be im missing something....

Thanks,

Avinash

[David at David Simpson Apps]

To find out which Java objects are exposed in velocity and thus help you with writing your own user macro, I'd recommend:
https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+Objects+Accessible+From+Velocity

[Rian Rian]

Thanks, David, this help a lot.

[Martin Cleaver]

For clarity, this line: def String username = '{user-info:username}' Did not establish the username when groovy ran that line, instead it simply embedded the macro expression verbatim in its stdout. That stdout, when when passed to Confluence, gets treated as content on the page, and Confluence expands it. Or, am I wrong?

[Anh Mather]

{tip:title=this works for me}

Current user fullname: {user-info:fullname}

Current userid: {user-info:username}

{tip}

You can pass it to a variable in groovy:

{groovy:output=wiki}

mport com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject;

import com.atlassian.confluence.util.GeneralUtil;

import com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager;

import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.Attachment;

import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.AttachmentManager;

import com.atlassian.confluence.util.velocity.VelocityUtils;

import com.atlassian.confluence.web.context.StaticHttpContext;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRichTextString;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;

import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.*;

import javax.activation.MimetypesFileTypeMap;

import java.util.Date;

def String username = '{user-info:username}'

println("current user : " + username + "\n");

{groovy}

[Rian Rian]

Thanks, Anh. This did the trick.

[Rian Rian]

Yes it did! just add another parameter, as in "{user-info:email|user=@self}"

[Rian Rian]

No it didn't! This returns information about the user that created the page, not the current user. Is there another example that would work?