# User ID and/or friendly name while editing a document

**URL:** https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/user-id-and-or-friendly-name-while-editing-a-document/294
**Category:** Installation & Configuration
**Created:** [April 8, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/user-id-and-or-friendly-name-while-editing-a-document/294 "2021-04-08T17:08:54Z")
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### Author: ![fcalleja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@fcalleja](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/fcalleja)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/user-id-and-or-friendly-name-while-editing-a-document/294/1 "2021-04-08T17:08:54Z")

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Hello,  
I’ve seen on the online demo that when editing a document, my username appears on the screen where the cursor is and I see all names of people editing the same document as me and where their cursor is located.

When I do this on my own instance, i just have localhost:1 or localhost:2.  
It’s an instance where collabora is accessed through apache proxy link on a centos 8 server.

I’m wondering how my web developers can setup friendly user name when one of our internal users access collabora through the loleaflet URL ?  
Is it a parameter passed on the loleaflet url ?  
Should there be an initiating connection first with any other mecanism ?

Thanks for your suggestion.  
Franck

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### Author: ![pedro.silva](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/pedro.silva/32/4_2.png) [@pedro.silva](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/pedro.silva)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/user-id-and-or-friendly-name-while-editing-a-document/294/2 "2021-04-23T10:35:43Z")

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Hi @fcalleja ,

> [@fcalleja](#):
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> I’m wondering how my web developers can setup friendly user name when one of our internal users access collabora through the loleaflet URL ?  
> Is it a parameter passed on the loleaflet url ?  
> Should there be an initiating connection first with any other mecanism ?

As far as I know there is no way to pass the user name via URL parameter. However that string is available `CheckFileInfo` response properties called `UserFriendlyName`. More info on [Advanced integration — SDK https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/ documentation](https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/docs/advanced_integration.html#userfriendlyname)

Hope that helps!