modifying the url with javascript

Question

In Sharepoint 2010 I'm trying to do a custom google search based on the currently logged in user's username. For example if a user named john clicked on the link he would be directed to http://www.google.com/search?q=john

In order to get a user's username from the AD and display it in a page, I'm using this property:

<SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue PropertyName="PreferredName" runat="server" id="ProfilePropertyValue6"/>

So far I have come across this javascript snippet which allows me to concatenate a variable to the end of google's search url:

<script type="text/javascript">
var url = "john";
</script>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=" onclick="location.href=this.href+url;return false;">Link</a> 

By assigning john to the url variable I am able to concatenate the username to the end of the url.

However, what I want to do is assign the SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue... to the variable url so that each individual user's username is concatenated to the end of google's url.

So far I have tried assigning SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue... to the url variable:

var url = <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue PropertyName="PreferredName" runat="server" id="ProfilePropertyValue6"/>;

This didn't work because I can't seem to call the property value inside of the script tags, so it will have no effect.

So what is the proper way of modifying the url with javascript?

Answer 1

try this instead:

var url = {  UserName: ' <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue PropertyName="PreferredName" runat="server" id="ProfilePropertyValue6"/>'};  

check to make sure above works first ;) once it gets the name you can then do:

var name = {  UserName: ' <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue PropertyName="PreferredName" runat="server" id="ProfilePropertyValue6"/>'};  

var url = "http://www.google.comsearch?q="+name;

also like to note that i dont know if the property name your using would work and also make sure your id is correct? so you should try:

var name = {  UserName: ' <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue PropertyName="FirstName" TitleMode="true" runat="server" />'}; 
var url = "http://www.google.comsearch?q="+name;

shouldnt the preffered prop look like this?

  <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue PropertyName="PreferredName" ApplyFormatting="false" id="userPreferredName" runat="server"/>

as a personal opinion I wouldnt be using this method! you should be using the javascript object mode to get the username! thats what its there for ;)

someone is nice enough todo most of the work!

   var spUser;

   // Ensure SP objects have been loaded before executing our code    
   ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(getSpUser,"sp.js");    

   function getSpUser() {
       var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
       var spWeb = clientContext.get_web();
       spUser = spWeb.get_currentUser();
       clientContext.load(spUser);
       clientContext.executeQueryAsync(getSpUserSuccess, getSpUserException);
   }

   function getSpUserSuccess(sender, args) {
       var curUsername = spUser.get_title();
       var url = "http://www.google.comsearch?q="+curUsername;
        window.location = url;
   }

   function getSpUserException(sender, args) {
       // Do any necessary error handling.
   } 

iv ammended the answer slightly to suit your needs :)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17948431/query-string-in-javascript-in-sharepoint-aspx-page