Vinay Godugu

April 6, 2015 Less than a 1 minute read

How to get UserName and other login info in SAP UI5 application

Hi Everyone,

I am writing this blog to get login info into SAP UI5 application, where you can display User ID, FirstName, LastName, FullName, Email etc… in any of your SAP UI5 Apps.

Here is the sample code where you can fetch all the information into JSON format.

//Get User details once logged in

//Get User details by using srv;

var y = “/sap/bc/ui2/start_up”;

var xmlHttp = null;

xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {

if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200) {

var oUserData = JSON.parse(xmlHttp.responseText);

console.log(oUserData);

}

};

xmlHttp.open( “GET”, y, false );

xmlHttp.send(null);

or we can also use JSON Model

oModel = new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();

oModel.loadData(“/sap/bc/ui2/start_up”);

Note: This will only run on SAP UI5 BSP application but not on local SAP UI5 application.

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sridevi garapati

April 6, 2015 at 1:29 pm

Hi Vinay,

Thanks for Sharing.

Could you please explain why it's not working in Local SAPUI5 application.

Thanks in Advance

Sridevi

Vinay Godugu

Blog Post Author

April 6, 2015 at 2:28 pm

Hi Sridevi,

This is not an ODATA service and it's a JS file which gives the result, so it won't work as ODATA request.

this statement, y = "/sap/bc/ui2/start_up"; will look for this file in local system, which will not be there. So when you run this as BSP Application, that time it will look for this file in "<domain name>:<port>/sap/bc/ui2/start_up" path and it will search in gateway system.

Hope this info helps.

Thanks,

Vinay

Florian Pfeffer

April 6, 2015 at 6:16 pm

Hi Vinay,

thx for sharing. What was the reason for not using the loadData method of the UI5 JSONModel (JsDoc Report - SAP UI development Toolkit for HTML5 - API Reference - sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel)? This would avoid the manual usage of the XMLHttpRequest object.

Thx & Regards,

Florian

Vinay Godugu

Blog Post Author

April 7, 2015 at 3:47 am

Hi Florian,

Thank you so much 🙂 Yeah we can use JSON Model and we can avoid XMLHttpRequest object.

Suman Chakravarthy K

April 7, 2015 at 1:29 pm

Thanks for enriching my knowledge !!

Sowmya Junju

June 29, 2015 at 9:31 am

How to get Username in local ui5 applications?

Vinay Godugu

Blog Post Author

June 29, 2015 at 12:00 pm

Hi Junju,

You can try this following code by your server ip address and port (same as ODATA service)

var oModel= new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();

oModel.loadData("http://<server host>:<server port>/sap/bc/ui2/start_up");

Former Member

June 29, 2015 at 10:36 am

Hi Vinay,

How to get username in local ui5 application?

Vinay Godugu

Blog Post Author

June 29, 2015 at 11:59 am

You can try this following code by your server ip address and port (same as ODATA service)

var oModel= new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();

oModel.loadData("http://<server host>:<server port>/sap/bc/ui2/start_up");

Vinay Godugu

Blog Post Author

June 29, 2015 at 11:40 am

Hi Snigdha,

Are you using any ODATA services in your application?

Sowmya Junju

June 29, 2015 at 12:18 pm

Hi Vinay,

Thanks for the reply.

If i give " http://<myServerName>:<port>/sap/bc/ui2/start_up ",i am getting 404-Not Found error.

I want to get the username ,when i open the xs application from the browser.

Your help would be highly appreciated

Thanks,

Sowmya

Vinay Godugu

Blog Post Author

June 29, 2015 at 12:29 pm

if you don't mind what is the odata URL are u using?

try to check in SICF transaction if /sap/bc/ui2/start_up is activated or not

Former Member

September 2, 2015 at 12:29 pm

Hello,
I have the same problem. I don't have ui2 installed, we don't use ABAP. Our SAPUI5 application runs on Java AS and is authenticated via Java UME. Is there a way to get the username this way?

Sudheer Kumar Akkalapotu

July 9, 2015 at 3:21 pm

Hi Vinay,

Thanks 🙂

Former Member

February 16, 2016 at 10:48 am

Hi Vinay thanks for your work

I'm trying to use this

//Get User details by using srv;

var y = "/sap/bc/ui2/start_up";

var xmlHttp = null;

xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {

if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200) {

var oUserData = JSON.parse(xmlHttp.responseText);

console.log(oUserData);

}

};

xmlHttp.open( "GET", y, false );

xmlHttp.send(null);

the console.log show me that i get the data but then i try to set them into a JSON and then bind it to some table to display what i need.

with this

var oModel1 = new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();

oModel1.setData(oUserData);

sap.ui.getCore().setModel(aModel1,"test");

but i get errors depending from where i put this

either oModel1 is not defined or oUseData is not defined
end obviously i get no data into my table

Any ideas?

Former Member

July 4, 2017 at 6:00 am

parent.sap.ushell.Container.getUser().getId()

Andres Bolanos

May 18, 2020 at 9:27 pm

Hi,

I could not get the user id, I have tried in the following ways:

1. sap.ui2.shell.getUser ();

2. sap.ushell.Container.getService (" UserInfo ");

3. adding the scripts to the index file

4. with xmlHttp

5. sap.ui.require ([ 'sap / ushell_abap / bootstrap / abap' ], ...

but nothing works for me, some give me the error "of undefined", others print "default_user". but not the user id, it's something like "S0021 ..."

I am working with SAP Fiori Cloud

I appreciate your collaboration

adrian di ruggiero

July 7, 2020 at 2:41 pm

Hello,

Did you find a solution to your issue? I'm in the same situation...

Thanks

Adrian

Vinay Godugu

Blog Post Author

July 30, 2020 at 3:09 pm

Andres Bolanos - May I know which Fiori Cloud you using?? is it SCP Portal? because I heard Fiori cloud will be obselote in some months.

Andres Bolanos

August 3, 2020 at 1:55 pm

Hi Vinay Godugu I am using sapui5 on the webide, I already found a way to do it without XMLHttpRequest.

thanks.

vijay singh

August 8, 2020 at 2:54 pm

Hi Andres Bolanos

Could you please post your solution?

i am also looking for a way to solve this.

Thanks

RajeshReddy Bhavanam

August 4, 2020 at 8:06 am

Hi Andres Bolanos - i am also facing the same issue,can you please share the solution.

Thanks,

Rajesh

Andres Bolanos

August 10, 2020 at 12:51 pm

RajeshReddy Bhavanam,

vijay singh

this is what worked for me

in the neo-app.json file, add the following

{
"path": "/ services / userapi",
"target": {
"type": "service",
"name": "userapi"
}
},

in the manifest.json file add the following model

"userapi": {
"type": "sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel",
"settings": {},
"uri": "/ services / userapi / currentUser",
"preload": true
},

now in your controllers you can get the information as follows

getuserid: function () {
var modeluser = this.getOwnerComponent (). getModel ("userapi");
return modeluser.getProperty ("/ name");
},

or in the xml view with the expression

{userapi>/name}

Greetings from Colombia

Sudhir Kancherla

April 12, 2021 at 1:29 pm

My application is deployed to the SAP Business Technology Platform and this answer solved the problem for me.

@Andres Bolanos

Thank you for sharing.

Regards

Sudhir

Prince Jain

April 30, 2021 at 6:56 am

Hi,

Thank you so much

This solved my issue.

Regards,

Prince

Ahmed Ali Khan

February 4, 2022 at 4:25 pm

Hi Andres Bolanos and Sudhir Kancherla

In SAP Business application studio, we don't have neo-app.json, can you suggest what code i should write in xs-app.json to get the user please.

Naveen V

July 2, 2022 at 8:04 am

Thank you so much for detailed solution Andres Bolanos

Solution worked for my BTP Fiori app hosted in NEO

How to get UserName and other login info in SAP UI5 application

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