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What is the best way to add custom field attributes to app.user?

Francesca Shiekh
I have some custom fields on User, e.g support_group_c, that I use repeatedly to set defaults and determine which custom view to show on Cases etc.
I find myself repeatedly having to pull the full user bean to get the values for these fields.
Unfortunately app.user does not seem to include these custom fields.

What is the best route to have those values available throughout the app?
Should I be trying to override the GET /me ?

thanks,
FrancescaS
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    Francesca:

    If you want to add additional information into the "me" function you'll need to extend the retrieveCurrentUser function in the CurrentUserApi. That function specifies which fields are returned
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    Hi Francesa and Jeff,

    I would like to extend on what Jeff wrote with some more details and a code example. This can be accomplished by following this Dev Guide article. Here is my extended API code:

    File: ./custom/clients/base/api/CustomCurrentUserApi.php
    require_once("clients/base/api/CurrentUserApi.php");    class CustomCurrentUserApi extends CurrentUserApi  {      public function registerApiRest()      {          //in case we want to add additional endpoints          return parent::registerApiRest();      }        // override the retrieveCurrentUser function      public function retrieveCurrentUser($api, $args)      {          global $current_user;            $current_user_results = parent::retrieveCurrentUser($api, $args);          $user_data = $current_user_results['current_user'];            // add custom fields here:          $user_data['custom_field_c'] = $current_user->custom_field_c;            return array('current_user' => $user_data);      }  }
    Then from within JavaScript you should be able to access your custom fields via:
    app.user.get("custom_field_c");
    -Mark
  • 0 in reply to Mark Everidge

    Hello,

    I have tried to get Full name of user using App.user.get

    console.log(App.user.get("full_name"));

    It giving me undefined in console.

    Any suggestion for this?

    One I get full name value then I can go for this solution for custom field.

  • 0 in reply to Hiren Darji

    full_name is retrieved by default so it should be available to you.

    Where are you in the application when you try to use it?

    I don't think there is a difference between App and app, I use app.user.get('<fieldname>') in the initialize in custom/modules/Cases/clients/base/views/record/record.js and it works for me.

    FrancescaS

  • 0 in reply to Hiren Darji

    Hi Hiren,

    What is the error being received? App vs app can make a difference as JavaScript is a case sensitive language so these are seen as two separate objects.

    When testing code from the JavaScript console, you have to use the global "App". From inside your code it is generally recommended to use "app" instead as it should have context and scope from within the code.

    -Mark