these come back empty

gUsrName = LOWER(Session.GetSessionVar("_authenticateduser"))
gUsrFullName = Session.GetSessionVar("_authenticatedusername")
the following is in wwsession
<_authenticateduser>jim</_authenticateduser>
<_authenticatedusername>Jim Day</_authenticatedusername>

any ideas why i can not retrieve the variables?

You don't need to get them out that way. If you're using Authentication and have enabled, you can use Process.cAuthenticatedUser and Process.cAuthenticatedUserName.

That said it should work, unless you're not actually have session set up properly.

It works for me:

This is in the sample app...

Make sure your process class enables sessions with InitSession().

+++ Rick ---

pcCookieName = Request.GetCookie("WhoGoes")
process.cauthenticateduser 
process.cauthenticatedusername 

The pcCookieName points to wwsession record that has an empty var field. process user info was also empty.

Each time I do login another wwsession record is generated. Those records have the user information in the var field.

the hit count on the first wwsession record is incremented but in the wwsession records with the var field filled only has a count of 1.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Cookies are not session variables...

+++ Rick ---

pcCookieName = Request.GetCookie("WhoGoes")
SELECT wwsession
IF sessionid<>pcCookieName
   lcVars = Vars
   LOCATE FOR sessionid = pcCookieName
   replace Vars WITH lcVars
ENDIF 

This code is required to get my login information into the proper wwsession record.

Not sure why but 7.4 version has the same issue. So it has to do with my new computer.

Jim