get the full name of the user by using javascript in MS CRM

use the following bunch of code to get it


//get user full name
function getUserFullName(){
//Create the XML that will fetch the required info.
//You can inspect this web service call using a tool called FIDDLER.
var XMLRequest = "" +
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>" +
"<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">" +
GenerateAuthenticationHeader() +
" <soap:Body>" +
" <RetrieveMultiple xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices\">" +
" <query xmlns:q1=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2006/Query\" xsi:type=\"q1:QueryExpression\">" +
" <q1:EntityName>systemuser</q1:EntityName>" +
" <q1:ColumnSet xsi:type=\"q1:ColumnSet\">" +
" <q1:Attributes>" +
" <q1:Attribute>systemuserid</q1:Attribute>" +
" <q1:Attribute>fullname</q1:Attribute>" +
" </q1:Attributes>" +
" </q1:ColumnSet>" +
" <q1:Distinct>false</q1:Distinct>" +
" <q1:Criteria>" +
" <q1:FilterOperator>And</q1:FilterOperator>" +
" <q1:Conditions>" +
" <q1:Condition>" +
" <q1:AttributeName>systemuserid</q1:AttributeName>" +
" <q1:Operator>EqualUserId</q1:Operator>" +
" </q1:Condition>" +
" </q1:Conditions>" +
" </q1:Criteria>" +
" </query>" +
" </RetrieveMultiple>" +
" </soap:Body>" +
"</soap:Envelope>" +
"";
try{
//Create Http request object
var xmlHttpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
xmlHttpRequest.Open("POST", "/mscrmservices/2007/CrmService.asmx", false);
xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction","http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices/RetrieveMultiple");
xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", XMLRequest.length);
xmlHttpRequest.send(XMLRequest);
//alert("aaa"+xmlHttpRequest.responseText);
//Store the response which would be XML
var Result = xmlHttpRequest.responseXML;
/*
The return is of type "BusinessEntity" if you were using similar code one server side.
Hence we need to select node of type "BusinessEntity"
In our case It should be not more one than one node
*/
var BusinessEntityNodes = Result.selectNodes("//RetrieveMultipleResult/BusinessEntities/BusinessEntity");
// Check If data was retrived
if (BusinessEntityNodes.length != 0){
var BusinessEntityNode = BusinessEntityNodes[0];
var SystemUserId = BusinessEntityNode.selectSingleNode("q1:systemuserid");
var FullName = BusinessEntityNode.selectSingleNode("q1:fullname");
var SystemUserId = (SystemUserId == null) ? null : SystemUserId.text;
var FullName = (FullName == null) ? null : FullName.text;
// alert("FullName"+FullName);
}
return FullName;

} catch (e){
alert(e.message);
}
}


have happy coding

Sudhanshu