Many of the posts about getting user information are years old, I was wondering if there has been any updates for accessing User data other than using third party plugins and scripts?
I’d like to show user specific data in a login page. There doesn’t seem to be a way to dynamically access the current logged in users data.
If I cant do this in webflow, what else can i need to use to accomplish this?
Hey @memetican, is it true that you can only access user information on the “/user-account” page? E.g. if I have 3 pages where each has a form submission and I need to associate those submissions with the logged in user (without asking for their email again on the form), the only option is to do it all from “/user-account”?
I do wonder why WF won’t let us have the user email/name on pages as needed. Most “Hello World” tutorials for web development have you greet your logged in user on their dashboard… Is there some security reason to not implement?
Webflow User Accounts doesn’t have any native personalization features or access to user info anywhere. The only means you have is to scrape it from the input fields on the /user-accounts page.
That’s one of many things SA5’s logged-in user info lib does to assemble user info for you.
Yes was going to scrape the email on the user-account page and build everything there because it seems no other options. But I just wanted to confirm that with SA5 I’d still have to build everything on the /user-account page, so these forms wouldn’t be able to live on own pages with own urls?
No, that’s the whole point of SA5. You should read the docs.
I did, your docs say:
“Currently this library depends on the User Account screen in order to access user data”
Which makes me think you can only access/utilize user info on the /user-account page, not on other URL/pages that you make. Please correct me if I’m wrong, your docs make it seem like this is the case.
No. The user account page is necessary for sourcing the information, it’s not a constraint on where you use it.
You’ll learn a lot more about whether this is what you want if you just open the cloneable.
Otherwise you should check out Memberstack, which has the ability to both read and write custom user info through its client side JS API.
Thanks for clarifying and quite glad to know I can use it to access user info on any page.
I did actually clone it yesterday before I posted but I couldn’t really find an answer to my question during the time I poked around (edit - the cloneable is all on the /user-account page which made me think that might be the only place where you can utilize user info). That’s on me of course.