topic Re: OSUser() not working on server in QlikView

OSUser() not working on server

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

I want to extract the details of the logged in user.

For this i am using the function OSUser(). This works perfectly fine when i am using it on my local machine. However when i deploy the dashboard on the server, the user details dont come through. It shows a blank. I have tried using QVUser() in place of OSUser() too. Both of these dont seem to work. Could someone please help me with this?

Re: OSUser() not working on server

Bill_Britt — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:11:24 GMT

Hi,

osuser() will read your local machine login.

qvuser() reads your user if you long into section access with USERID.

They should work on the access point.

Bill

Re: OSUser() not working on server

rubenmarin — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 20:48:03 GMT

OSUSer() should work on access point, are you just showing OSUser()? or using the function in an expression?

Re: OSUser() not working on server

Bill_Britt — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:40:30 GMT

Create a Text object and put in =osuser()

Re: OSUser() not working on server

cwolf — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:59:28 GMT

OSUser() always works with Plugin as client. With Ajax, it only works if the server authorization is set to "DMS authorization".

Re: OSUser() not working on server

Bill_Britt — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:30:40 GMT

Hi,

That is incorrect, osuser() will work with either setting.

Bill

Re: OSUser() not working on server

cwolf — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 14:06:45 GMT

Maybe since version 12.10. But before it definitely did not work in Ajax if server authorization was set to "NTFS authorization".