Visual Composer Accessing Runtime Data

Hello everybody,
I need to access runtime data from Visual Composer such as user logged, I need to obtain this info to display it in a input field in a form view, has anyone did this before or any suggestions, thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ivan

Hi,
On your compose window, you would find something called user data under connectors. Drag and drop that inside your view and try to fetch information from that.
Regards,
Murtuza

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