# Testing viewingSelf from plugin outlet

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**Created:** [17 Febbraio 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-viewingself-from-plugin-outlet/57576 "2017-02-17T21:57:09Z")\
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I can confirm that works, including in the file I was having problems with.

My statement that “this.currentUser” didn’t exist within the connector was wrong.

Looking again, I see where I went wrong: I was using Chrome’s debugger to see which properties/methods existed on the “this” object, but I didn’t realise it only shows some of them at the top level, with others nested inside the \__proto_\_ level. I’m still very much a javascript newbie and still getting surprised by differences vs my bread & butter C++.

Many thanks for your help!

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