Hi Ed,

I'm not sure if this will help but I know you can certainly use the User Service via a custom data type like as follow, assuming that you are using AngularJS:

angular.module("umbraco").controller("MyController", function ($scope, userService) {
    $scope.user = userService.getCurrentUser();
});

Then within your view, you can then use the current user properties as follows:

<div ng-controller="MyController">
    {{ user.id }} {{ user.name }}
</div>

Thanks, Dan.

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your response!

Well, I'm trying to get this information from one of the back-end pages, from the EditStyleSheet.js file. I'm getting an error that angular isn't defined (expected). Forgive me - new to Angular - is there something I'll need to include in this .js file?

Thanks, Ed

That makes two of us :)

How are you registering your code?

If I'm correct, you have to provide Umbraco with a package manifest in order to register components correctly and in the right order. So for example, within the folder /App_Data/MyPackage/, you would want to create a package.manifest file which could contain something like the following:

{
    javascript: [
        '~/App_Plugins/MyPackage/MyController.js'
    ]
}

Hopefully it should point you in the direction.

Thanks, Dan.

Morning!

Thanks for that, Dan - looks like I'm getting somewhere!

I've managed to move the code out into a separate controller in a custom package, used the package.manifest, and it's picking the code up nicely! But I'm still having trouble with "angular is not defined". Looking at the computed source, angular.min.js is definitely loaded before my controller (unless lazyload is doing crazy things), so I'm not sure why it can't be found...is this something to do with scope?

Thanks, Ed

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