Retrieve Windows User to add into a Forms field

asked on May 8, 2014 • Show version history

Hi,

We have the following scenario:

One of our customers will deploy a form in their intranet. I don't have additional information on how their intranet is built. They have Forms Portal.

We need to find a way to get the Windows User of the person who will be submitting the form. My question would be:

a) Is there a way to obtain this information via JavaScript? (or another method for this matter)

I've read this question, but Blake's approach is different from our client's, as their intranet is not using Joomla.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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replied on May 9, 2014

Edgar, I believe the concept would be the same though. Even though they may not be using Joomla, whatever backend they are using, you would need to be able to get access to user object of that system and then you can pass it in a querystring.

Another option we looked into, but didn't work for us, was to try and embed the form in the intranet site and then pass the user object information to the form that way.

Without knowing anything about what they are using on the backend, it's hard to give suggestions.

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replied on October 10, 2014

How about:

-a client-side way of getting the AD username of the user, who is logged into a windows machine, and using IE to open the public (non-autenticating) form where the forms server and the user's workstation are both on an internal Microsoft Windows Server network?

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