Objects in DekiScript

Assign properties to DekiScript objects to display user, page and site information for your Expert instance on your pages.

Assign properties to objects

The Expert DekiScript objects are:  user, page and site. Assign properties by adding a period . after the object followed by the property:

Object with property Function
user.name Displays the name of users
user.anonymous Displays anonymous users
page.title Displays the page title
page.author Displays the author of the page
site.uri Displays the URL of the site
site.name Displays the name of the site

Display user, page and site information

 Follow the steps in this example to display user, page or site information on your pages:

  1. Add a DekiScript block to a  page.
  2. Type the following code into the DekiScript block:
"User: " ..user.displayname;<br/>
"Page title: " ..page.title;<br/>
"Site name: " ..site.name;<br/>

Explanation of the syntax 

Syntax element Description
"" Designate the beginning and end of the custom text string you want to display
.. Designates the current page
user.displayname  The object.property call
; The operator indicating the end of a line of code (necessary)
<br/> Forces a line break
  1. Once you click Save, the page will display the following:
User: Anonymous User
Page title: Objects in DekiScript
Site name: Expert Success Center