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How to Retrieve Domain Name of current Windows user in Omnis Studio?
Hello Omnis community,
I’m currently working on an Omnis application where I need to validate the current user’s IP address against the server. In .NET, I can use the following code to get the domain name:
System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties().DomainName
for more information:
Is there a similar method or any other approach in Omnis Studio that allows me to retrieve the domain name? I’d appreciate any guidance or possible solutions.
Thank you!
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7 Replies
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Hello Roland,
You can get this by using the getenv() function:
Do getenv(‘USERDOMAIN’) Returns myDomain
Best regards,
Andreas
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Thanks Andreas,
However it just return the user domain name. I also want to get the System name (or name of the device display in system information). Do you have any ideas to get that ? I failed to find the document for getenv() and its parameters.
Thank you so much
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Hi Roland,
getenv() receives any Windows environment variable.
For instance you could use getenv(‘hostname’) to get the hostname of the system. Here is the documentation: https://www.omnis.net/developers/resources/onlinedocs/FunctionRef/Functions_A-Z/getenv.html#getenv
Does that help?
Best,
Andreas
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Roland,
ok – correction. getenv(‘hostname’) does not seem to work. Obviously it is not an environment variable.
However you can use oProcess to make any call into the system. For example if you type in “whoami” within a CMD prompt and you find this is the result you are looking for then you could use the oProcess external to do exactly this.
Here is the documentation about oProcess: https://www.omnis.net/developers/developers/resources/onlinedocs/ExtendingOmnis/06oprocess.html#chapter-6oprocess
Here is a technical note that explains quite well how to deal with it: https://www.technotes.omnis.net/Technical%20Notes/Extending%20Omnis/Using%20the%20oProcess%20Worker/index.html
If interested I can upload a zip example that uses oProcess to zip and unzip.
Best,
Andreas
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Roland,
One more thing. If you want to know what environment variables are available on the system you can use the listenv() method. This method returns a list with the env variables together with their value.
Best,
Andreas
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Thank you so much for your help, Andreas.
It’s really helpful for me. However, I failed to implement the <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>oProcess Worker. Could you please send me your whoami example zip so that I could have a look? Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Roland-
Hi Roland,
The Whoami is in the tech note: https://www.technotes.omnis.net/Technical%20Notes/Extending%20Omnis/Using%20the%20oProcess%20Worker/3.Simple%20example%3A%20whoami.html
Attached please find the zip sample library. Note you can open it with the pro version of Omnis Studio. If you have a community edition check out this tech note: https://www.technotes.omnis.net/Technical%20Notes/Extending%20Omnis/Using%20the%20oProcess%20Worker/4.Complex%20example%3A%20unzipping.html
Best regards,
Andreas
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