Retool has a global variable called current_user and there is a number for the values for current_user.id Where is this number coming from? How can I access this table? (My goal is to get a mapping of the current_user.id and the logged in user's email or name)

Appreciate you looping back on this. As I was setting up access control in my app that has a pretty complex organisations/projects/users/assets ecosystem meant to serve different users content per there respected access level. And stumbling upon {{current_user.id}} I obviously thought of it as a pe…

Current_user.id table

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Kabirdas December 12, 2022, 5:36pm 5

There's also a feature request for accessing more user data that you can follow along with here!

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Current_user.id table

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