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    Logged in User Name Friendly Get

    I want to use something similar to the loggedInUserNameFriendlyGet function to display the user ID of the person logged into my UX component. However, I am not using the integrated login, I am using persistent login. My understanding is that this function will only work with the integrated login. Does anyone have a method they can share to make this same functionality work with persistent login?
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    Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

    Regarding the Integrated Login... how would you be setting the FriendlyName... where would that value come from?

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      Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

      This video is kind of long, but explains the process of using Integrated Login


      I want to do something similar to this, but with persistent login.

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        Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

        Here's how I am doing it (persistent login).... add a label control to your main panel and in the Client Side Properties / Calculated field expression" enter the name of the textbox variable your app has for the user to enter their login ID
        example.PNGmobilehomescreen.PNG

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          Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

          The end goal is I want someone to log into my app, and on the home screen it will say something like "logged in as X", where X is the user ID.

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            Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

            I don't really need a video of how Integrated Login works. I was asking about how you'd go about getting a FriendlyName in that circumstance. What would you do?

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              Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

              Hey Dave, Sorry, I didn't explain well. But that particular video shows how to get a friendlyName with the integrated login. I know you know how integrated login works. :-) The video was just my attempt at explaining what I am trying to do, except I want to do that with a persistent login. Thanks for the feedback.

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                Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

                ids-dave, thanks. That looks like a good way to do it. Only problem is I have a login UX, and then embedded application UX. So I'm not sure how I could make one UX reference a username field from another UX. If you have any ideas, I would love to here them. Thanks!

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                  Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

                  It's exactly the same concept. The video doesn't really show getting a real friendly name... but does talk about adding code to do lookups to get the name etc. That's what I was attempting to get at... what process would you actually use to get a name.

                  Because Persistent Login calls an Xbasic function to log in... that's where you'd run the same additional code to grab your FriendlyName... while you're at the server.

                  Then you'd follow the same practice you're using to store the other data coming out of the Xbasic login function. I'm not crazy about localStorage... I prefer DeviceStorage... but whatever you use, you'd simply store the FriendlyName as well.

                  In onRenderComplete you go after the stored data, to validate your login, and you'd also get your FriendlyName.

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                    Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

                    Originally posted by carlbsmith View Post
                    ids-dave, thanks. That looks like a good way to do it. Only problem is I have a login UX, and then embedded application UX. So I'm not sure how I could make one UX reference a username field from another UX. If you have any ideas, I would love to here them. Thanks!
                    But the FriendlyName concept was created to keep from having to display a real user login name. I thought that's what you wanted. Do you actually just want to display the login name? I'm also not sure how that works for persistent login after you've close the app and then re-opened it. The username isn't entered again... unless David is doing something else not shown.

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                      Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

                      At this point I would be fine with friendly name or user name, whichever is easier to implement. Unfortunately my Xbasic skills are limited, so figuring exactly out how to get that implemented will be a challenge. I will try to research that out some more though. Thanks!

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                        Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

                        Originally posted by Davidk View Post
                        But the FriendlyName concept was created to keep from having to display a real user login name. I thought that's what you wanted. Do you actually just want to display the login name? I'm also not sure how that works for persistent login after you've close the app and then re-opened it. The username isn't entered again... unless David is doing something else not shown.
                        I'm not doing anything else with the control "UserName". In the past, I was saving the user login ID and other info in state variables, but after modifying this app to be completely offline capable, I determined I could trust the control used for the login ID to persist to the device storage and not expire

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                          Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

                          Originally posted by carlbsmith View Post
                          At this point I would be fine with friendly name or user name, whichever is easier to implement. Unfortunately my Xbasic skills are limited, so figuring exactly out how to get that implemented will be a challenge. I will try to research that out some more though. Thanks!
                          IMO, I think you're adding complexity to your project because of the multiple UX's. I started out my 1st mobile app doing the same thing and quickly realized it was better to have only 1 UX for the entire app. For example, if your app was a single UX, you could use my earlier example and be done with it.

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                            Re: Logged in User Name Friendly Get

                            Thanks for all the feedback. I will look at this more today.

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                              Oh, and I forgot to mention that one of the reasons I was sort of talked into doing the embedded UX was because I have a control bar that I only wanted to appear in the main application, not on the login screen. One of the solutions suggested to me was to have a login UX, and then a main application UX with it's own control panel. That has worked well for me, except for issues like this. And you are right, it does seem to be a pain to figure out how to jump back and forth between components to do things.

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