LongRange Developer Forum

I have used the shipped component LRUAVAIL and LRULOGON to request user logon to use LongRange. I would like to get the logon user within my form. Anyone knows how to do that? I would also like to ask what's the use of the 'User Profile' within the IBM i Settings in a server profile definition? Many thanks.

The "IBM I User Profile" you can enter in settings is used in two contexts:
(1). By all LongRange for RPG Apps
(2), For LongReach server connections (eg: when you use document views).
The only use of the IBM i user profile in LongRange for LANSA is situation (2).

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LRULOGON should not be used ‘as is’ in your project - otherwise you will lose your changes the next time you upgrade - or the upgraded LRULOGON may have new or changed behaviors that you do not expect – so copy it to make your own custom version.

In your custom version of LRULOGON save the logged on user name somewhere. Do this the same way that you use for remembering other program values between user interactions. Then other form views can then extract this value when they execute.

If you do not have a generic way to remember values you can use the shared state methods - http://www.longrangemobile.com/docs/lan ... ethods.htm

Also see this thread about using shared states - it’s for LongRange for RPG but exactly the same ideas and cautions apply http://longrange.lansa.com.au/viewtopic ... state#p341

If you want to encrypt the user name, or any shared state variable, use the standard LANSA built-in functions.