I’m looking for a way to link the BOUSER login ID to the users name. For each registered user, they have their name associated with their login ID (BOUSER). Is there a way to bring in the name associated with their login ID?
daylon11 
(BOB member since 2012-12-11)
What exactly are you tryng to do? Are you trying to limit data per user by their bo ID?
NycPriya (BOB member since 2010-11-04)
I’m trying to design a dashboard to where when a user log’s in, the top of their canvas/workspace has their name. The only way I thought of that this might be possible was to bring in the BOUSER ID but I’m stuck on how to get the ID to associate with their name that is stored in BO. Essentially, I’m looking for the counterpart to the BOUSER. Something like the BOUSERNAME, although I know that exact variable doesn’t exist.
daylon11 (BOB member since 2012-12-11)
Moderator note:
Do yo use DeskI or some other tool? Maybe Xcelsius? If it’s not DeskI that you use, then the topic will be moved to a right forum. Please let us know. Thank you.
Marek Chladny 
(BOB member since 2003-11-27)
We do this on our few reports. We have 1 column that has a user’s unique code and a column that has users full name. We basically filter on user cide and have their bo ids be the same as their codes. So we put in our query
Where
User_code = bouser (whatever that variable is)
And then we just disolay their full name in a cell. Hope this helps.
NycPriya (BOB member since 2010-11-04)
It’s Xcelsius
daylon11 (BOB member since 2012-12-11)
[Moderator Note: So moving from Desktop Intelligence to Xcelsius - Crystal Dashboard Design]
Marek Chladny (BOB member since 2003-11-27)
I don’t have any experience with this, but I have noticed that nowhere in Infoview have I ever seen my name. Just my BOUSER ID.
Put it like this: If I were to be asked for that here where I work, the I’d spend a little time confirming that user’s real names aren’t available, but my kneejerk solution would be to try to get it in the Universe along with my data. The application supplying our Universe data has the user’s real names.
Hope this helps…
theknowtank (BOB member since 2011-04-20)