Additional User Context Fields

[AlecCollins]

Currently, Expressions has context available for the User via $User. However, only a few basic fields from the user are available and these are set/static.

What is your opinion on expanding this to match Salesforce functionality? For example, making all fields available along with relationship fields. This would be similar to how all other records are handled in expressions. Also, Salesforce allows checking if the current user has Standard/Custom permissions assigned to them.

Is there a reason you went with the way that you did?

[cesarParra]

$User currently maps the UserInfo class. The idea behind these special variables is that they can be used to get org context without the SOQL query impact.

I'm not against matching whatever is possible doing in formulas though, so I'm open to it. Would you happen to know if there are any docs detailing what can be accessed for Users in formulas? A quick search didn't yield any results

[AlecCollins]

Here are docs that I could find: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.dev_understanding_global_variables.htm&type=5

I wonder if it be possible to allow direct use of these Global Variables. There seems to be a ton of functionality that could be useful if it was a relatively easy add!

[cesarParra]

Thanks, that's really helpful! From a quick look I totally agree there are a lot of them that look pretty good. Once I have a bit of time over the next couple of days I'll go through them and start implementing