USERINFO -- retrieve details about a user

Parameters

Parameter	Description
"name"	WikiName or login username. May be a group.	current user
format	Format string; see below for supported formatting tokens.	$username, $wikiusername, $emails

Format tokens that can be used in format:

Token	Description
$emails (*)	Comma separated list of email addresses known to the user mapper (this would normally be TopicUserMappingContrib). If expanding for a group, then this will be the email addresses of all members.
$groups (*)	Comma separated list of group membership. Currently only expands for users
$isadmin (*)	Has admin privileges (expands to true or false)
$isgroup	Is a group (expands to true or false)
$username (*)	Login username. If expanding for a group, this should expand as unknown
$wikiname, $wikiusername	The user's WikiName and Main.WikiName, respectively

Tokens flagged '(*)' are considered private and are hidden from other users by default.
The standard format tokens are also supported.

Examples

• %USERINFO{"name" format="..."}% expands to guest, Main.WikiGuest, (lists $username, $wikiusername, $emails)

With formatted output, using tokens:

%USERINFO{ format="$username is really $wikiname" }%

Expands to: guest is really WikiGuest

Retrieve information about another user. You can use either a wikiname or a username to identify the user. You can only see the restricted information about another user if you are an admin, or the {AntiSpam}{HideUserDetails} configuration option is not enabled. (User details are hidden on this site) :

%USERINFO{ "WikiGuest" format="$username is really $wikiname" }%

Expands to: guest is really WikiGuest

Related

USERNAME, WIKINAME, WIKIUSERNAME, GROUPINFO, UserAuthentication, ChangeEmailAddress