system.user.getUser

Description

Looks up a specific user in a user source, by username. The full User object is returned. See the docs for system.user.getUsers for more information about the User object type.

Syntax

system.user.getUser(userSource, username)

Parameters

String userSource - The name of the user source to search for the user in.

String username - The username of the user to search for.

Returns

User - A User object.

Scope

All

Examples

This example will print the first and last name of the current user using the default datasource:

userName = system.security.getUsername()

user = system.user.getUser("", userName)

print user.get(user.FirstName) + " " + user.get(user.LastName)