User email address variable

Continua CI Discussion
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Hi,

I’m trying to pass the email address of the currently logged in Continua user to FinalBuilder, is this possible?
Is there a variable stored for user email? I can pass the username with %USERNAME% but can’t seem to access the email address.

Regards,

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Hi Luke, the %USERNAME% variable (as refereed to within a stage action) relates to the username of the Windows user running the Continua agent service (this information is derived from the %USERNAME% environment variable on the agents’ operating system).

We do not currently transfer any information about currently logged in Continua users to agents. As a side note you can get the username of the Continua user who started a build by using the variable $Build.StartedBy$ .

Would you elaborate further on the use-case for this one?

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Thanks for the info Peter. $Build.StartedBy$ is actually what I’m using to pass usernames (not %USERNAME%, my mistake). If it’s possible to get the name of the person starting the build would it not also be possible to get the email address saved in Continua that’s attached to that account? Basically we have a ton of ‘send email’ actions in finalbuilder and we usually prompt for the build starters email address and we pass that to the project, but as we’re using windows authentication it would be nice to be able to pass that to finalbuilder automatically based on their credentials.

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Hi Luke, thank you for the further information. I will put this idea forward to the team for further consideration.

Thank you.

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Hi Luke, just a note that we have implemented this one and hope to have it available for the next release.

Thanks again

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Hi Peter,

That’s great to hear! Looking forward to the next release.

Many thanks,