How to Display Current User Information In Lightning Component

Sometimes we have need to display information of current login user on lightning component or need to use in client side JavaScript controller.

Today in this post we are going to learn about how we can display current user information on salesforce custom lightning component. and also learn how to get current user ID without calling server side apex controller.

Step 1 : Create a Apex Controller : currentUserInfoCtrl.apxc

public with sharing class currentUserInfoCtrl {

@AuraEnabled

public static user fetchUser(){

// query current user information

User oUser = [select id,Name,TimeZoneSidKey,Username,Alias,Country,Email,FirstName,LastName,IsActive,IsPortalEnabled

FROM User Where id =: userInfo.getUserId()];

return oUser;

}

Step 2 : Create Lightning Component : userInfo.cmp

<aura:component controller="currentUserInfoCtrl">

<aura:handler name="init" value="this" action="{!c.doInit}"/>

<aura:attribute name="userInfo" type="user"/>

Current User Information

Name : {!v.userInfo.Name}

FirstName : {!v.userInfo.FirstName}

LastName : {!v.userInfo.LastName}

Email : {!v.userInfo.Email}

Username : {!v.userInfo.Username}

IsActive : {!v.userInfo.IsActive}

IsPortalEnabled : {!v.userInfo.IsPortalEnabled}

TimeZoneSidKey : {!v.userInfo.TimeZoneSidKey}

Country : {!v.userInfo.Country}

</aura:component>

userInfoController.js

({

doInit : function(component, event, helper) {

var action = component.get("c.fetchUser");

action.setCallback(this, function(response) {

var state = response.getState();

if (state === "SUCCESS") {

var storeResponse = response.getReturnValue();

// set current user information on userInfo attribute

component.set("v.userInfo", storeResponse);

}

});

$A.enqueueAction(action);

}

})

Step 3 : Create Lightning Application for Testing: demo.app

From Developer Console >> File >> New >> Lightning Application

<aura:application extends="force:slds">

<c:userInfo/>

</aura:application>

Output :

If you want only current user ID, than you don’t need use apex controller. you can get current login user id in client side JavaScript controller using below statement :

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({
   doInit : function(component, event, helper) {
    var userId = $A.get("$SObjectType.CurrentUser.Id");
    alert(userId);
   }
})

check also : How to access apex class property in lightning component

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7 comments

anwesh_sfdc says:

January 9, 2018 at 4:09 am

thanks good post piyush soni,
How to get all list of logged users in Salesforceforce org and Display in Lightning component

Anonymous says:

July 10, 2018 at 5:32 pm

Hi,

Can you please provide help on to get specific users timezone

Thanks

Moh says:

August 10, 2018 at 12:40 pm

hello anwesh_sfdc have you find a solution ?
I have the same probleme

Annon says:

September 19, 2018 at 5:30 pm

How to get user login user phone number in apex code?

PV says:

November 29, 2018 at 3:37 pm

Hi could you provide test class for this please?

Vemulapalli Surendra says:

April 25, 2019 at 3:53 pm

If email address is ‘[email protected] on user profile, we can fetch the User name from email on user profile without server call.

Lightning Component :

<aura:component implements=”flexipage:availableForRecordHome>
<aura:attribute name=”UserName” type=”String” default=””/>
</aura:component>

javaScript controller :

({ doInit : function(component, event, helper) {
var UserName = $A.get(“$SObjectType.CurrentUser.Email”);
cmp.set(“v.UserName”,(UserName.substring(0, UserName.lastIndexOf(“@”))));
alert(cmp.set(“v.UserName”));
}
})
Raji says:

January 21, 2021 at 6:15 pm

Hello, I am using a very similar code to display the ” Welcome ‘user name’ !” on a community page. it displays the name for Admin Users , but not for everyone. what am I missing? Thank you