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Adam NilaAdam Nila 

Filter SOQL results by active user

What I want to do is pull a list of events scheduled for today but only list the events relevant to the active user.... Here's what I have so far...

 

public class QuickLogController {
    public String username{get;set;}
    
    public string finduser(){
		
        username = Userinfo.getUserName();
        return username;
    }  
    
    public list<event> getEventsToday(){
       
       List<event> TodaysEvents = Database.query (
           'SELECT Who.Name, Owner.id, Subject, StartDateTime, Location FROM event WHERE StartDateTime = TODAY AND Owner.Name = :username ');
        return TodaysEvents;
        	        
    }
    
}

When I run this without "AND Owner.Name = :username '" it works fine.  When I test it in the query editor and replace ":username" with my name, it works fine.  Not sure what I'm doing wrong here?
Best Answer chosen by Adam Nila
JeffreyStevensJeffreyStevens
okay - try this....
List<event> TodaysEvents = new list<event>([SELECT Ownerid FROM event WHERE StartDateTime = TODAY AND Ownerid = :UserInfo.getUserId()]);

that worked for me - then add the other fields as you need.

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JeffreyStevensJeffreyStevens
Try...

.... AND OwnerId =  :UserInfo.getUserId()
Adam NilaAdam Nila
Tried that as well... The code passes without any noted problems, but when I preview the page that's it presents me with the error "Unexpected token ("
JeffreyStevensJeffreyStevens
okay - try this....
List<event> TodaysEvents = new list<event>([SELECT Ownerid FROM event WHERE StartDateTime = TODAY AND Ownerid = :UserInfo.getUserId()]);

that worked for me - then add the other fields as you need.
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Adam NilaAdam Nila
That did the trick.  Thank you!  Any chance you might be able to explain the difference between the two pieces of code pertaining to why ':UserInfo.getUserId()' worked with one but not the other?  From my obviously non-expert point of view they don't seem very different at all.   I've spent a few hours trying to figure this out with every other example I've looked at indicating it should work both the way I posted and the way you originally suggested.
JeffreyStevensJeffreyStevens
glad it worked.

I think because you were using the database.query() construct.  So, your SOQL was in quotes - basically a string.  So if you wanted to stay in the string - I think you'd have to do something like....

string SOQLString = 'SELECT Who.Name, Owner.id, Subject, StartDateTime, Location FROM event WHERE StartDateTime = TODAY AND OwnerId = \'' + :userInfo.getuserId() + '\'';

List<event> TodaysEvents = Database.query (SOQLString);

(althought I'm not sure how the TODAY would have worked in that code).