GetUser API

[enendza]

Hi -

I have a process that needs to get information about a SoftPro user. I have their networkLogin (i.e. DOMAIN\UserName) - I wrote this code but the user object is always returned as NULL.

Any advice?

ISecurityManager sm = selectServer.GetService<ISecurityManager>();

//Get your current user
ISecurityUser userInfo= sm.GetUser(AuthenticationScheme.Windows, "DomainName\Jane.Doe");

if (userInfo!= null)
{
return userInfo.EmailAddress;
}
else
{
return "";
}

[BobRichards]

Your approach doesn't work because the second parameter for GetUser() is expecting a Guid string. The code below is used to first get the light-weight ISecurityIdentity object for the user. Then the code gets the heavy-weight object with more user information by looking it up with the user Guid.

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ISecurityManager secMgr = RuntimeContext.GetService<ISecurityManager>();

ISecurityIdentity existingIdentity = secMgr.Identities
    .Where(t => t.Authority == AuthenticationScheme.Windows
        && t.Name == "SOFTPRO\\fancypants")
    .FirstOrDefault();

if (existingIdentity != null)
{
    ISecurityUser userInfo = secMgr.GetUser(existingIdentity.ID);
    return userInfo.EmailAddress;
}

[enendza]

Many thanks Each time I continue to learn about SoftPro and the features and how to use them. Thanks agao