get user info in LMS

[campi]

Hi,

I have noted that in the HTML templates of EDX LMS (e.g. Navigation.html, courseware/courses.html, etc.) I can access a Python variable called user.

This is an example code portion of navigation.html

      <li class="primary">
        <a href="${reverse('dashboard')}" class="user-link">
          <i class="icon fa fa-home" aria-hidden="true"></i>
          <span class="sr">${_("Dashboard for:")}</span>
          <div>
          ${user.username}
          </div>
        </a>
      </li>
      <li class="primary">

This ${user.username} sentence prints the username of the user currently logged. It is also possible to print the current user's email by using ${user.email}

However, when I try to print the user's country (I have set the country registration field as required) in this way ${user.country} an error arises as the attribute 'country' does not exist in the variable user.

AttributeError: 'User' object has no attribute 'country'

Where is this 'User' object defined in the code? Can I modify it adding a country attribute in order to obtain the user's country in the LMS code?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[David Adams]

Campi,

The country attribute is on the UserProfile object not the User object. The model file for UserProfile is common/djangoapps/student/models.py.

Fortunately, in Django template language you can traverse relations; there is a one to one between user and profile.

If you replace ${user.username} with ${user.profile.country} you should have it.

"profile" is the name of the relation between User and UserProfile.

In terms of tables in the db, UserProfile has the name "auth_userprofile".

Regards
David

[campi]

Thank you very much for your help, it was very useful !

[Robi Renz]

Hi Campi

I'm interested in doing this exact same thing..

I'm trying to send data off to and external web address as parameters.

but when I add the variable names and look at the course html I only visually see the ${user.username} on screen..
the only one I can get to translate automatically is the %%USER_ID%%, and that one only puts student instead of the actual ID.
any hints on how to tackle this would be greatly appreciated..

Best Regards...

Roberto Renz

[Robert Raposa]

Hi Robi.

What template are you in?  Are you in a context with other variables that are being properly replaced with this same syntax?  Or are you using Django Templates rather than Mako Templates?

Thanks.

Robert

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[Roberto Renz]

Hi Robert,

I'm trying to use the %%USER_ID%% just on a unit html content. it works but It changed to  student instead of the actual  user ID.
so I tried playing with the templates for lms and cms and I can add stuff to the footer or whatever other html file, but the variables are like ${user.id}   or ${user.username}   and they work fine, I do get the value of the variables..
what I would like to do is use those variables but on a normal html unit so I can use them in an iframe however it doesn't convert the variables, I just get the same string.

Now I'm guessing, this is probably where I have to create an xblock and use that in advanced blocks. but that is where I'm stuck, unless somebody has any other ideas.

Best Regards...

Roberto Renz

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[Robert Raposa]

Sorry for the delay Robi.

It looks like you are looking for something like the Keyword functionality supported in bulk emails, but that doesn't exist for the HTML Component. 

I did find the following code which seems to explain how %%USER_ID%% is getting replaced.  I was trying to better understand the comment in that code, to see if that helps indicate a direction for you, but I haven't yet gotten an answer and didn't want to leave you with no response.

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[Nabil Raddaoui]

Hi,

Can you please put your code in github it will helpfull for me.

Thank you

Nabil

[Leslie Huin]

Hi

It's normal. It's because you are testing it in the studio. It will work then in the actual MOOC. At last, it works for me ;)

[Nate Aune]

We needed to be able to grab the user's email address so that we could send it to an external API, so we changed the file:

edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/html_module.py

in the class HtmlModuleMixin(HtmlBlock, XModule) (lines added are in green)

    def get_html(self):

        data = self.data

        if self.system.user_is_staff:  

            from django.contrib.auth.models import User

            user = User.objects.get(id=self.system.user_id)

            data = data.replace("%%USER_EMAIL%%", user.email)

        elif self.system.anonymous_student_id:

            data = data.replace("%%USER_ID%%", self.system.anonymous_student_id)

            if getattr(self.system, 'get_real_user', None):

                user = self.system.get_real_user(self.system.anonymous_student_id)

                if user and user.is_authenticated():

                    data = data.replace("%%USER_EMAIL%%", user.email)

        

        return data