Sitecore 9 - Authors accessing profile information for content items

Question

Is there any out-of-the-box way in Sitecore 9 for content authors to access the sitecore user profile information and put it INTO the content fields.

For example, in the experience editor - could a author add something to a string field like Welcome {Profile.FullName}! . I have seen some third party libraries for 8.x that seem to offer the ability to create your own tokens -- is this still the only applicable way? Will these work with the content items?

Answer 1

In Sitecore 9 you need to customize a bit to replace customtokens with User Name.

In next example you will replace $user with the name of the user

First off all you need to extend MasterVariablesReplacer:

public class CustomMasterVariablesReplacer: MasterVariablesReplacer
    {
        protected override string ReplaceValues(string text, Func<string> defaultName, Func<string> defaultId, Func<string> defaultParentName, Func<string> defaultParentId)
        {
            if (text.Length == 0 || text.IndexOf('$') < 0)
                return text;
            ReplacerContext context = this.GetContext();
            if (context != null)
            {
                foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> keyValuePair in (SafeDictionary<string, string>)context.Values)
                    text = text.Replace(keyValuePair.Key, keyValuePair.Value);
            }
            text = this.ReplaceWithDefault(text, "$name", defaultName, context);
            text = this.ReplaceWithDefault(text, "$id", defaultId, context);
            text = this.ReplaceWithDefault(text, "$parentid", defaultParentId, context);
            text = this.ReplaceWithDefault(text, "$parentname", defaultParentName, context);
            text = this.ReplaceWithDefault(text, "$date", (Func<string>)(() => DateUtil.IsoNowDate), context);
            text = this.ReplaceWithDefault(text, "$time", (Func<string>)(() => DateUtil.IsoNowTime), context);
            text = this.ReplaceWithDefault(text, "$now", (Func<string>)(() => DateUtil.IsoNow), context);
            text = this.ReplaceWithDefault(text, "$user", (Func<string>)(() => Sitecore.Context.User.Name), context);
            return text;
        }
    }

You need to register new master variable replacer in a config file :

<configuration xmlns:x="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/" xmlns:role="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/role/" xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
  <sitecore role:require="Standalone or ContentManagement">
    <settings>
    <setting name="MasterVariablesReplacer" value="YourNamespace.CustomMasterVariablesReplacer,YourDll"/>
    </settings>
   </sitecore>
</configuration>