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Posted on by Earl20

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In my current workflow I have the display name automatically pulled. It has the last name then first name of the person. How can I change it to read first name then last name. I'm assuming i have to use some type of variable

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Paulie78 8,422 Moderator on at

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You could do something like this:

These are all compose actions, the expression in final step is:

concat(outputs('Split_DisplayName_by_Space')[1], ' ', outputs('Split_DisplayName_by_Space')[0])

The final Output is:

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I don't know a quick simple way to do what you are describing, but you can do Split() based on a space and then concatenate the Last() and First() array entries from the resulting array to get the reversed display name.

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Sunshine14 11 on at

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Hello,
I have similar use case except that I am using sharepoint columns to get the display name and it is in the format of lastname, Firstname. When I used this solution, getting the following error message: The template language expression 'concat(outputs('SplitCurrentSupName')[1], '', outputs('SplitCurrentSupName')[0])' cannot be evaluated because array index '1' is outside bounds (0, 0) of array.
I tried using
concat(outputs('SplitCurrentSupName')[2], '', outputs('SplitCurrentSupName')[0]) thinking need index of 2 since there is comma but that doesnt work too.
I am new to Power automate, please help.

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