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Display username that execute the report

birtbeginner

Hi, All I just started desinging report using birt and know nothing about either Java or Javascript.I currently need to display the user name that executed the report, I've read several posts about it and have a rought idea that I need to write a Javascript to do it using something like:reportContext.getAppContext().get("ServeruserName").However, I don't know where to put this script and how to call it latercan anyone give me a stepwise guidance?Thank you so so much!

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pricher

Hi, It really depends what you intend to do with the Username value. If you just want to display it in a report, the simplest way is to drop a Label component in your report and add the following line to the onRender method: this.text = reportContext.getAppContext().get("ServerUserName"); Keep in mind that:1. ServerUserName works only with the commercial version of BIRT, when you run the report on either iServer or iHub;2. it will return "anonymous" when you run it from the Designer. Hope this helps, P.

birtbeginner

<div>Thank you for the reply! Richer</div><div>Do you mean that in one of the cell inserting a label and then click on the script, from the drop down list select onRender and type this.text = reportContext.getAppContext().get("ServerUserName"); in the script window</div><div>That's what I did but previewing the report yields nothing in the label place</div>

pricher

Hi, As I mentioned in my previous post, reportContext.getAppContext().get("ServerUserName") will return null if you are not running on Actuate BIRT iHub (i.e. the commercial release of BIRT) If you are running BIRT Open Source and the runtime engine, you will have to capture the user name in a session variable and retrieve it in you BIRT report. For example, if you have a JSP that stores the user name in a sesion variable called userName, you can use the following code in the onRender method of a label to retrieve the userName value: var httpRequest = reportContext.getHttpServletRequest();
var session = httpRequest.getSession();
var user = session.getAttribute("userName");
this.text = "User is " + user;
I have attached an example with JSP pages and a report design. Copy the files to the root of your app Server and run go.jsp Hope this helps, P.

DenisG

Hi, Pierre! I have the same issue with username in report. In my case I have OpenText Content Server 10.5 on TOMCAT and BIRT 4.5.0. Could your decision help me and if so how I can implement it?

pricher

Hi,
 
If you are running BIRT Open Source in your Content Server environment, you cannot use reportContext.getAppContext().get("ServerUserName") to return the user name. That syntax only works when you run BIRT from the Open Text Actuate iHub, and as far as I know, iHub is not integrated with OT Content Server.
 
When using BIRT Open Source, your only option is to work with reportContext.getHttpServletRequest() and from the object returned call getSession() to work with session attributes that could store user information.
 
I am attaching a BIRT report example that illustrates retrieving data from the HTTP session. When you run the report, you will get a bunch of property names and their values. These properties have been extracted in the beforeFactory Event Handler of the report and stored in a scripted data set. This should give you some directions on how to proceed in your particular case.
 
Hope this helps,
 
P.

DenisG

Pierre,
Your report works fine but unfortenutely there is no information about OpenText user which ran report.

pricher

Denis,
 
And that is fully expected! The only way you can have BIRT retrieve user info from OT Content Server is to find out if Content Server stores user info in a session attribute that you can then retrieve using session.getAttribute(). 
 
P.

bmark

Hello Pierre,
 
my reports are running in iHub 16. You know I can setup eMail and Description per user in their profiles. Is it also possible to fetch email and description for the current logged in user in the report like I can do with "ServerUserName"? What are the keys?
 
Thank you in advance
 
Benjamin

pricher

Hi,
 
As far as I know, ServerUserName simply returns the user name. If you want to get other properties of the current user, you will need to write some IDAPI code to get the user object from the iHub volume.
 
P.