How to get Bloomberg UUID in Excel

Question

In an Excel sheet I need to get the UUID of the user currently logged in on the terminal. I'm not optimistic that this can be done as blpapi doesn't have this functionality (How do I extract user details for Bloomberg Desktop API connection?). I was hoping that the @BSettings function would give this but this is not the case, it only gives info on the version of the Excel plugin

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66055371/how-to-get-bloomberg-uuid-in-excel

Answer 1

You cannot do this using the Excel API. That is designed for retrieving market data, and information that pertains to that process.

If you want the UUID, you can run IAM<GO> on the terminal. There may be other places locally that Bloomberg stores UUID and other such information but that is not intended for use by end users so YMMV.