I have been doing some work in Quickplace 7 recently and came across a simple problem that took me a while to find the solution for. All I wanted to do is to get the user's name and be able to manipulate it with Javascript. The Customizing Quickplace documentation says that I should be able to access the REMOTE_USER CGI variable in my script, but I was unable to get it to work. In the end, there is a variable called haiku.userName that you can access from any script in any Quickplace. I knew it had to be something simple. If you look at the source of your Quickplace page, you will see a number of other variables that you might find useful.