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I'm using SharePoint 2013 on premises and I want to get the Id of a user to later change the Author of a listitem. I've used this url "/_api/web/siteusers(@v)?@v='{1}", but the id I get for my user is 15 and I know that my user id is 9, What am I doing bad?

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  • do you want to get user by it's login name?
    – Atish Kumar Dipongkor
    Commented Sep 25, 2016 at 12:22
  • I only want the Id of the user by it's login name, then with that Id I would change the author id of an item list
    – Luis Molina
    Commented Sep 26, 2016 at 6:35

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There is one more way to get ID of current logged user using "_spPageContextInfo" object.

Please refer following code -->

_spPageContextInfo.userId

Reference - Understanding the _spPageContextInfo object

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  • This will not work outside of a SharePoint page
    – Jigar
    Commented Sep 25, 2016 at 11:21
  • Yes Jigar, you are right, this object is available only on SharePoint pages.
    – Rohit Waghela
    Commented Sep 25, 2016 at 12:01
  • Yes, that is not what I need, anyway thanks Rohit.
    – Luis Molina
    Commented Sep 26, 2016 at 6:36

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