How do you retrieve the user details when using Azure AD authentication?

[shauggy]

We're currently building a site via PowerPages on top of our Dynamics 365 instance. I'm using the web API to fetch data, and using the default Azure AD/Entra ID authentication to give our users access. All of the PowerPages documentation says to use Liquid tags to access the user object (i.e., {{ user.id }}, etc), but it doesn't look like the user object is actually getting created when you use the Azure authentication. We could use the local auth, but everything says that will be deprecated soon.  Anyone know how to return the current user in PowerPages if you're using the default authentication? 

[Fubar · Accepted solution]

The the Liquid user object exists for all authentication methods.

However, it only exists for a user that is logged in to the Portal (i.e. if the user is logged into the authentication provider but has not signed into the portal then the 'user' object will not exist).

[shauggy]

Thanks, Fubar - it looks like our problem was we had the Site Setting for Profile/Enabled set to "false". So the issue was as you mentioned - the user would be logged into the authentication provider, but not actually logged into the portal (so the 'user' object wasn't getting created) 

I toggled that setting back to "true" and it works as expected now. Thanks for pointing us in the right direction!