Send Email to current user via system.report.executeAndDistribute

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Good afternoon, all!

I’m working on placing a button on a report form for emailing the data using system.report.executeAndDistribute. This works for a static user, but I can’t seem to locate a method for getting the currently logged-in user’s email address.

Probably simple…but the method doesn’t appear to be well documented in the manuals.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

John

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I would get the current username using the tag “[System]Client/User/Username” or the script function system.security.getUsername(). Then you can use system.user.getUser to get a user object that has the method getContactInfo().

https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/system.user.getUser

I didn’t test any of this, so if you have any trouble I can pop open a designer and write some code.

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Thanks.

Yes, a code snippet would be helpful. I can get username from system.security.getUsername() just fine, but receive an error for “object has no attribute ‘getContactInfo’” error.

Appreciate the assistance!

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Did you do the step where you take that username and get a User object from system.user.getUser?

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username = system.security.getUsername()
user = system.user.getUser('default', username)
userContact = user.getContactInfo()
#Some fallback value in case the user doesn't have a registered email
userEmail = "" 
for x in range(len(userContact)):
	if userContact[x].contactType == 'email':
		userEmail =  userContact[x].value
		break
print userEmail

userContact is a java array of contact objects. I couldn’t think of a better way to iterate over it, but it should usually be a sort list.

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Thank you again. This worked well!!

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:golfing_man:

userEmail = next((ci.value for ci in user.contactInfo if ci.contactType == "email"), "")
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That’s perfect. I like to use questions like this as exercises for myself, I’ve learned a lot from it–and from seeing your guys’ golf scores :wink:

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