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HTML code to show the username

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I would like to add a block to the landing page (Dashboard) with a welcome message using the username like "Welcome back Username". Is there a way to do this? If so, can someone share the HTML code?

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Hi, attached is what our landing page looks like. It is using an HTML block with this coding.

Hi {alternatename}

Welcome to GEM,
Diamond's Learning Portal.

Hope this helps.

Sue

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Hi Sue,

Thank you very much for your reply. I tried adding this to the block, but it didn't work.

Can you please send me the complete HTML code for the block?

Regards

Suhaz Hari

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Hi Suhaz,

The coding is just like this:

<h3>Hi {alternatename}</h3><h3>Welcome to GEM,<br>Diamond's Learning Portal.</h3>

Alternatename is a field we have populated in the Users Accounts under Additional names. The block was originally created for us by our external partner so I am not sure if they had to do anything in the setup to allow that field to be recognised.

Sue

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Hi everyone, thanks for discussing this idea, I find it very good to "personalise" the wellcome dashboard. Unfortunately this HTML code didn't work in my HTML block. I still see

although I posted: <h3>Hi {alternatename}, Welcome to</h3> in the HTML view

Is there any way to make this work?

Thanks!

Best regards,

Senka

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Hi Senka

That looks like it is using the filtercodes plugin.

GitHub - michael-milette/moodle-filter_filtercodes: FilterCodes filter for Moodle enables content creators to easily customize and personalize course and site content using plain text tags (no HTML).

I can't give you any more information than this though.

Jane

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