I need to get Current Logged in User 'Name' in the Homepage component.

I tried creating a VF page and included through an IFRAME in Home Page Component and successfully got result. But I don't prefer using this method coz using IFRAMES is not so appreciated.

I thought of creating an Apex Webservice to pull the required info, but some issue.

Apex Class:

global class myClass{ 
   webService static String getContextUserName() {
       System.debug('@@@'+UserInfo.getFirstName());
        return UserInfo.getFirstName();
   }
}

 Home Page Component:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.min.js"> </script> 
<script src="/soap/ajax/19.0/connection.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> 
<script src="/soap/ajax/15.0/apex.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
<script> 
$(document).ready(function(){ 
  var contextUser = sforce.apex.execute("myClass","getContextUserName",{}); 
  alert(contextUser); 
}); 
</script>

But I got the following errors in Firebug

"NetworkError: 500 Server Error - https://ap1.salesforce.com/services/Soap/package/myClass"

uncaught exception: {faultcode:'sf:INVALID_SESSION_ID', faultstring:'INVALID_SESSION_ID: Invalid Session ID found in SessionHeader: Illegal Session', }

Thanks,

Pintu Francis

I am trying to pass a string representing a data category to a controller and then filter my SOQL query for knowledge based on that.

Ideally I would like to do something like:

    public String release { get; set; }
    
    public List<FAQ__kav> getFAQsForRelease()
    {
        List<FAQ__kav> faqlist = [select id, Title, Answer__c from FAQ__kav WHERE PublishStatus = 'Online' WITH DATA CATEGORY Releases__c ABOVE release];  
        return faqlist;
    }

but I can't figure out if there is any possible way to convert the string object 'release' into an datacategory type. Maybe a helper function or something?

I realize a big block of if / else if statements would do the trick, but I am hoping there is a cleaner solution. Thanks in advance.

Hopefully I'm missing something really simple here. I created a "Home Page Component" with the following body:

<iframe src="/apex/test" width="100%" frameborder="0" height="100"></iframe>

Where "test" is my VisualForce page. When I configure this to display on my home page, I see the source code as opposed to my VF page? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Regards