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Hi,
I have a page on my site that displays an article and to get some of the author’s bio information I make a call to their custom member profile data passing their ID like this:

{exp:member:custom_profile_data member_id="{author_id}"}
{if footer_bio != ""}<hr>{/if}
{footer_bio}
{/exp:member:custom_profile_data}

This works great, but then later in the same template I want to display the screen name of the currently logged in user. When I call the Global Variable {screen_name} it’s still showing the screen name for the member who’s ID I called using {{exp:member:custom_profile_data} and not the screen name of the currently logged in user. Is there something I need to so to reset/clear the global variable?

I did have caching on for my article template and I tried turning that off, but it didn’t seem to make a difference.

Hi, Adam. Have you seen: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/globals/single_variables.html#alternative_syntax

Try the alternative syntax of logged_in_screen_name - see if that works.

Thanks Sue. I didn’t notice that alternative syntax. That seems to be doing the trick.

Very glad to hear it. Please post again as needed.