Hi Tim

Absolutely should be possible.

Use UmbracoContext.Current.Security.CurrentUser to retrieve the current user, Name and Id are properties of the returned User model. Something like the below should work.

@{
    var user = UmbracoContext.Current.Security.CurrentUser;
    if (user != null) {        
        <p>Name: @user.ProfileData.Name</p>
        <p>ID: @user.ProfileData.Id</p>
    }
}

Hmm, tried this on a template with

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@using ContentModels = Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentModels;

but user is null even though I am logged in to the back end CMS as a user on the same browser..

Do I need to add any other references to the template?

oops, no that's member details, I'm after User details!

In that case you want this then Tim

@{
    var myUser = System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser();
    var umbracoUser = ApplicationContext.Services.UserService.GetByUsername(myUser.UserName);
}

@myUser.UserName
@umbracoUser.Id

Sorry, that doesn't work

are you sure

var myUser = System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser();

doesn't just work with members?

Ok, try this.

@{
    var userName = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
    var umbracoUser = ApplicationContext.Services.UserService.GetByUsername(userName);
}

@userName
@umbracoUser.Id

Sorry, no.

I am using this in a partial view, is this correct?

Similarly, I wanted to display a picked User for a node. (v7) Inside my template I needed this (but it wasn't a partial)

string OwnerS = Umbraco.Field("testPicker").ToString(); var OwnerName = ""; if (OwnerS != "") { int OwnerInt = Int32.Parse(OwnerS); OwnerName = ApplicationContext.Services.UserService.GetByProviderKey(OwnerInt).Name; } then rendered @OwnerName

I've had success in the past using this method:

var userTicket = new System.Web.HttpContextWrapper(System.Web.HttpContext.Current).GetUmbracoAuthTicket();
if (userTicket != null)
{
    var currentUser = ApplicationContext.Services.UserService.GetByUsername(userTicket.Name);
}

From here.

You can then do things like:

private bool _IsAdminLoggedIn = false;
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(currentUser.UserType.Alias) && currentUser.UserType.Alias == "admin")
{
_IsAdminLoggedIn = true
}

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