[rt-users] __CurrentUser__

[Todd Chapman]

What is going on is that some searches used on the front page have that
special variable in them and the components that display the search results
substitute __CurrentUser__ before passing the search to the search engine.
It would be better if search parser handled this at a lower level, but it
doesn't.

On 1/7/08, Steve Cochran <stephen.cochran at kingarthurflour.com> wrote:
>
>
> I think I might have found something weird going on. One of the
> included searches uses the special string "__CurrentUser__" as a
> search term. This is mapped in the Elements/ShowSearch file to be
> $session{"CurrentUser"}->Id.
>
> Now the search works properly on the front page, but if you go into
> the query (edit -> edit predefined search) and choose "Show Results",
> I get no results back. Is it possible that this variable is not being
> replaced in some locations?
>
> What's even weirder is that I enabled mysql query logging, and I saw
> the value "__CurrentUser__" being passed to the database from
> different places, including the front page where the query seems to
> work.
>
>
> All this is getting back to creating a "My Requests" search that works
> for all users. I have a query that works if I put my username in, but
> I can't get a query for the current logged in user working.
>
> Steve
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