topic Getting UserName and UserID from Connection Object in Vault Customization Forum

Getting UserName and UserID from Connection Object

John204 — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:53:48 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to get the currently logged in UserName and UserID to display in a message box using the API in Vault 2016 using VB. I started by writing my own version of a "Hello World" app that displays a message box from a command I inserted in the File menu. It works fine until I try to display UserName and UserID in the message box using the connection object. When I try to run the code below, nothing happens. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm missing but don't know what it is.

Imports ADCFV = Autodesk.DataManagement.Client.Framework.Vault

Namespace VaultAPItesting

Public Class VaultAPItestingCommandExtension

Implements IExplorerExtension

Dim m_conn As ADCFV.Currency.Connections.Connection

Public Sub CommandExecute(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Autodesk.Connectivity.Explorer.Extensibility.CommandItemEventArgs)

MessageBox.Show("Current UserID: " & m_conn.UserID.ToString & vbCrLf &

"Current UserName: " & m_conn.UserName)

'MessageBox.Show("Hello World!")

End Sub

Re: Getting UserName and UserID from Connection Object

psaarloos — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:11:03 GMT

Hi,

Your Vault Extension contains a 'OnLogOn' method which needs to be implemented by the IExplorerExtension interface. You can access the Connection object from the IApplication interface and store it in a variable during login. The Connection object contains the Server, UserName, UserID, Vault, etc properties that you need. See a sample below:

    Public Class HelloWorldCommandExtension
        Implements IExplorerExtension

        Private _connection As Autodesk.DataManagement.Client.Framework.Vault.Currency.Connections.Connection

        Public Sub OnLogOn(application As IApplication) Implements IExplorerExtension.OnLogOn
            _connection = application.Connection
        End Sub

        Private Sub HelloWorldCommandHandler(s As Object, e As CommandItemEventArgs)
            Try
                MessageBox.Show(String.Format("UserName: {0}, UserID:{1}", _connection.UserName, _connection.UserID.ToString()))
            Catch ex As Exception

            End Try
        End Sub

Hope this helps!

Re: Getting UserName and UserID from Connection Object

John204 — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:15:14 GMT

Works great. Thank you, Pim!!!