Wwctx_api.get_user only returns PUBLIC

I am trying to determine the user who has logged onto Portal, but this package only returns PUBLIC. I've seen in previous postings that this is the package to use - what am I doing wrong?

Well, I'm almost stumped. As far as I know, you are in a different context when executing a PL/SQL routine directly through the DAD. The username & password are stored with the Portal DAD (similar to old OAS functionality), so the engine doesn't know who you are. You can try using a different DAD w/o username and password stored, but then you'd have to create database schemas for all of your users. In this case, you would probably have to use an OWA package to find out who they are, because they are not logged in to Portal.
A better solution might be to create Forms based on Stored Procedure components for all of your procedures, which would enable you to keep the users in the Portal context. You would just have to create at least one (dummy) parameter for each, because forms based on stored procedures need a parameter.
--Kelly

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