Display Name being saved differently

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Posted on by Madhusri

Hi,

We have an app where we are trying to capture the full name of the person who is filling out the form.

The code we have is Office365User.UserProfile(User().Email).DisplayName which is working great.

However for very few users who have nick names for their first name, this code is displaying sometime as Tom and other times as Thomas, sometimes as Cath other times as Catherine etc. In another screen we have filters based on this field and the business is complaining about having duplicate names.

Any idea why this could be happening? Any leads on how to debug this is much appreciated.

Thank you

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kylzbaba 182 on at

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A good way to avoid this is to use the people picker or instead collect emails then on the second screen filter based on emails but on the front end, display the usernames associated with those emails.

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Madhusri 6 on at

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That totally makes sense.
However we are using User().Email to get the display name. Shouldn't that give us a unique display name? In what scenarios would it give different names? Is it different browser type or a different device? I am not sure.

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AsanKani 710 on at

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Hi, @Madhusri you are said "capture the full name of the person who is filling out the form"

So, who is filling the form, he is used your app. So, simply you can use below coding
Office365Users.MyProfile().DisplayName
It's return who is log in PowerApps, you will get that person display name

More reference regarding Office365 see below link,
Connect to Office 365 Users connection from Power Apps - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs

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kylzbaba 182 on at

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Not really, it's an AD issue really. I've had same experiences where AD will disay different display names. That's why for situations like this I revert to either collecting the users using people picker we just get the emails that would always be unique.

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AsanKani 710 on at

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@kylzbaba if you need email id means use below formulae
Office365Users.MyProfile().Mail
More info refer Connect to Office 365 Users connection from Power Apps - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs

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