NotAllowedError on Identity.name

I'm trying to get a form button that will add a watermark text which would include the user's name as it appears from the program's preferences. In its most basic form, I'm trying to do this:

this.addWatermarkFromText(identity.name);

However, I get the following error:

NotAllowedError: Security settings prevent access to this property or method.
Identity.name:1:Field [...]

Can anybody help?

Thanks!

Mr Gou

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You cannot get the identity information form a normal form context. See the documentation for the identity object:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/index.html#t=Acro12_MasterBook%2FJS_API_AcroJS%2Fidentity.htm

It says "The identity object properties are only accessible during batch, console and application initialization events to protect the privacy of the user. See Privileged versus non-privileged context for details.".

So, if you need to access the identity information, you will need to install a document level script that establishes a function with a privileged context that you would then call from your form. This means, that you would need to make this change on every computer that is used to process your form.

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