# Testing viewingSelf from plugin outlet

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-viewingself-from-plugin-outlet/57576>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [17 فبراير 2017، 9:57م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-viewingself-from-plugin-outlet/57576 "2017-02-17T21:57:09Z")\
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> [@LeoDavidson](#):
>
> don’t seem to exist on this

I thought for the most part a lot if the “main” objects had global scope, but you may need to pass the Discourse object to the function.

For currentUser try something like

```plaintext
var username = Discourse.User.currentProp('username') || "anon";

```

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