Comments on SharePoint Kings: How to get currently logged-in user in workflow

Just small modification. I add new field of person...

2011-03-28T18:26:51.338+05:30

Just small modification. I add new field of person/group, then copy "modified by" field to this new field. The result, I can see much cleaner user name. Hope this help.

Just small modification. I Add one new field of pe...

2011-03-28T18:24:30.331+05:30

Just small modification. I Add one new field of person/group type. then, I copy the content of "Modified By" field to this new field. The result, I get much cleaner user name. Hope this help.

HI Jimmy, Thanks for taking your time and we appr...

2010-01-02T09:57:13.038+05:30

HI Jimmy,

Thanks for taking your time and we appreciate your feedback.

I have specially mentioned this trick to solve the problem for those applications that calls the workflow.

If it is a MOSS Hosted solution, calling simple properties will work, however if it is office applications or any other web service that invokes the workflow, we don't get user directly.

Why wouldn't you just use the workflowProperti...

2009-12-30T08:50:40.808+05:30

Why wouldn't you just use the workflowProperties.OriginatorUser value as this is stamped with the credentials of the logged on user that executes the workflow