userCtx in Views

[Wordit Ltd <wo...@googlemail.com>]

Can you get the currently authenticated user inside a view?
Is userCtx.name not available? I get no results at all when I use it.

I want to use the username to get values for the currently authenticated user.
I know I can first get the session, then send the username as the key,
but that requires two separate requests.

Thanks,

Marcus

Re: userCtx in Views

[Benoit Chesneau <bc...@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Wordit Ltd <wo...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Can you get the currently authenticated user inside a view?
> Is userCtx.name not available? I get no results at all when I use it.
>
> I want to use the username to get values for the currently authenticated user.
> I know I can first get the session, then send the username as the key,
> but that requires two separate requests.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>

views know nothing about requests.. The easy way to do that may be to use lists.

- benoît

Re: userCtx in Views

[Keith Gable <zi...@ignition-project.com>]

You shouldn't think about views as having any knowledge of anything at
all besides the document. Views emit a key and a value based off of
information available in the document. Views are only computed when a
document changes or when a view changes. They are not computed when
the request runs unless they haven't been computed yet or need to be
recomputed.


On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Wordit Ltd <wo...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Can you get the currently authenticated user inside a view?
> Is userCtx.name not available? I get no results at all when I use it.
>
> I want to use the username to get values for the currently authenticated user.
> I know I can first get the session, then send the username as the key,
> but that requires two separate requests.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>



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