Expert: Bob Heifler - 7/8/2008

Question
Is there a way to add a button that by clicking on it will display the user name in a given field?  I've had good luck with it in Excel with =Environ("username"), but can't quite get it work in Access.

Answer
Wes,
I have used the following code from this programmer:

---Posted by Dev Ashish---

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API: Network User Name
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(Q) How do I retrieve the UserName with which the user is logged into the network?

(A) Paste the following code in a new module and call the function fOSUserName.


'******************** Code Start **************************
'This code was originally written by Dev Ashish.
'It is not to be altered or distributed,
'except as part of an application.
'You are free to use it in any application,  
'provided the copyright notice is left unchanged.
'
'Code courtesy of
'Dev Ashish
Private Declare Function apiGetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias _
   "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

Function fOSUserName() As String
' Returns the network login name
Dim lngLen As Long, lngX As Long
Dim strUserName As String
   strUserName = String$(254, 0)
   lngLen = 255
   lngX = apiGetUserName(strUserName, lngLen)
   If lngX <> 0 Then
       fOSUserName = Left$(strUserName, lngLen - 1)
   Else
       fOSUserName = ""
   End If
End Function
'******************** Code End **************************