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Use visitors' names

You can greet a person by name when they visit your page, provided that they're signed in to warwick.ac.uk.

Use a visitor's name in the Components Editor

  1. Go to the page you want to personalise.

  2. Go to Edit > Edit centre content:

    The SiteBuilder 'Edit' menu, with the 'Edit centre content' option highlighted

  3. Go to Dynamic > Name of user:

    The 'Add special features' menu in the Components Editor, with the 'Name of user' option highlighted

  4. The Name of user pop-up appears:

    The 'Name of user' pop-up

  5. Use the Name variant drop-down list to select whether to use the visitor's First name, Last name, or Full name.

  6. Select Add name of user.

  7. A placeholder for the visitor's name appears on the page:

    A text placeholder for a visitor's first name

    When published, this appears as:

    Hello !

  8. When you're finished editing your page, select Publish.

Use a visitor's name in the old visual editor

  1. Go to the page where you want to add the greeting.
  2. Go to Edit > Edit centre content or Edit right content.
  3. Place your cursor in the visual editor where you want to add the name.
  4. In the toolbar, select Insert a > Name of logged in user.
  5. Select one of the three options in the Name of logged in user window: First name, Last name or Full name.
  6. Depending on which option you chose in the previous step, one of the following lines is added to the visual editor:

    [if-anon invert=true]Hello, [firstname][/if-anon]
    [if-anon invert=true]Hello, [lastname][/if-anon]
    [if-anon invert=true]Hello, [name][/if-anon]
  7. To change the greeting, edit the text between the [if-anon] tags – for example:

    [if-anon invert=true]Hi [firstname][/if-anon]
    [if-anon invert=true]Dear [name][/if-anon]
  8. When you have finished editing the page, select Publish. You should see your name displayed on the page where you added the personalisation tag.

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