How do we link to the accessing Member's Profile in Generic Content/Forum/Blog Post?

 KMSigma Not a dumb question and definitely not a straightforward option since the profile URL is dynamic (versus settings: https://community.telligent.com/user/settings). 

I haven't re-tested this, nor did I write it, but this is some code from an old Unfiltered HTML widget on my site that contained a button encouraging users to visit their profile. It might need some tweaks, but should give a good starting point for you to backward engineer:

....
<div>
<a class="XXXXX" id="u-profile" href="#" target="_top">
<h5 id="XXXXX">My Profile</h5>
<img src="my really cool CTA image.png"/>
<p class="XXXXX" id="XXXXX">Click here to update your profile</p>
</a>
</div>

</div>
<script>
//Begin JS code for setting the link to the profile field
jQuery=window.parent.jQuery;
jQuery.telligent.evolution.get({
url: jQuery.telligent.evolution.site.getBaseUrl() + 'api.ashx/v2/user.json',
data: {'id': jQuery.telligent.evolution.user.accessing.id},
success: function(response) {
console.log("response: ",response);
var profile = document.getElementById("u-profile");
profile.href = response.User.ProfileUrl;
}
});
//End JS code for setting the link to the profile field
</script>

I remember it worked pretty well, we just changed other things on the page where it was used. I hope this helps!

Is there an alternative for this in velocity scripting as opposed to using javascript? I'm wondering if it would be more performant?

This really would be more flexible as its own widget, in which case you just access the widget Apis that have everything you already need (core_v2_user.Accessing) and would be less complex than a javascript call to the REST API(which also cannot be done in generic content).

I wish there was some type of tokenization for this.  Maybe something to put into the Ideas and Improvements .

The burn on this is that I'd like it to be available to a specific role only - adds a layer of complexity considering the TinyMCE editor.

As mentioned before, this is all pretty easy in a custom widget and is less code than the javascript example even if you include a role check.   The example above also has no logic to deal with the fact a user is not logged in, which is also fairly simple to do

Thanks to everyone.  I'll probably tinker with this in the new year.

Patrick M. said:

The example above also has no logic to deal with the fact a user is not logged in, which is also fairly simple to do

Oh ya, thanks for mentioning this. The authenticated logic was handled for this from a customized copy of the unfiltered HTML widget. (The widget only shows to logged-in users, and then the widget's HTML code generates the specific user's profile link).

I remember having this conversation before   Can you externally link a user to their own profile? 

This is still way overly complex.  If all you want is to show a link when a user is logged in this all it is as a custom widget (minus styling).   The added benefit here is you can store any scripts, styling, etc as part of the widget making it fully encapsulated

#if(!$core_v2_user.IsRegistered($core_v2_user.Accessing.Id))
    $core_v2_widget.Hide()
#end

<ul>
    <li><a href="$core_v2_urls.User($core_v2_user.Accessing.Id, true)">Visit Your Profile</a></li>
</ul>