I’ve noticed that the default home page includes {LOGGED_IN_USER:NAME} on the page.
Not saying it doesn’t exist, but I can’t find any documentation on these – are there more we can use? Could I grab {CURRENT_RECORD:NAME}, for example?
Anyone have a cheat sheet for these?
Hey @justinjtessier !
Thank you for your question!
By default, Softr supports the {LOGGED_IN_USER:NAME} variable, which automatically grabs the name of the logged-in user from the table connected to the Softr users connection. This pulls the user’s related data directly from the users table.
Here is a document in regards to this.
While {LOGGED_IN_USER:NAME} is the main built-in variable for displaying logged-in user data, there could be some custom codes to grab additional parameters from the user’s data or other records.
As for {CURRENT_RECORD:NAME}, it is context-dependent and refers to a specific record in a list or database block, not the logged-in user. This placeholder would be used when you’re viewing a particular record on a page (like a record detail view). If you’re trying to display user-specific data that isn’t tied to the logged-in user.
For example The list detail block automatically shows the current record when there is a record ID in the URL.
Best,
Thanks for the info.
Is there a list anywhere of all the current built-in variables that can be used without custom code? It sounds like you’re saying {CURRENT_RECORD:NAME} would be one of them – are there others?
Is the format simply {CURRENT_RECORD:[property]} and we can substitute different property names in the square brackets? Is it the same for {LOGGED_IN_USER}?
Hey @justinjtessier
Thank you for your question!
There isn’t a concept like {CURRENT_RECORD:[property]} because list detail blocks already display the current record’s data automatically when a record ID is in the URL. You don’t need to use placeholders for this—it’s handled by the block itself.
As for {LOGGED_IN_USER:[property]}, we currently only support displaying the logged-in user’s name via {LOGGED_IN_USER:NAME}.
If you have specific requirements beyond this, feel free to share.
It would be really useful if custom code blocks where html can be entered in a “free form” style, I could sprinkle {CURRENT_RECORD:[property]} variables.
Hey @justinjtessier this might be a bit late for your use case, but digging around in the softr docs and I found some documentation about global variables that are accessible via javascript, so you could in theory built out your html structure, and then populate the data via script on page load
Hi!
I want to use the logged-in user property on a text, but only {LOGGED_IN_USER:NAME} works.
Thanks for your help!