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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

I have a formula that is extracting the first and last name from an email address.

Substitute(First(Split(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3, "@")).Result,"."," ")

 

Now i need to do 2 things:

Formula to extract just the first name

and

formula to extract just the last name 

Please.

 

Thanks

dave

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  • RandyHayes Profile Picture
    RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @Anonymous 

    How are you distinguishing the first and last name delimiter?  For example, lets say your email address is your full name - DavidPowell - How would you determine what is first and what is last?

     

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    @RandyHayes 

    good question...

    have to take the 80/20 rule and assume a space.

    dave

  • RandyHayes Profile Picture
    RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @Anonymous 

    If you are assuming a space, then your formula would be:

    With(First(Split(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3, "@")),
 {
 FirstName: First(Split(Result, " ")).Result,
 LastName: Last(Split(Result, " ")).Result
 }
)

    Of course...there are a lot of assumptions in the email having a space and also that it is truly just a first and last name.

    The above produces a record with both first and last name columns in it.

     

     

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    @RandyHayes ,

    Can this formula be used inside  a "Patch" statement ?

     

    Patch(t_redbook_sp_ActivityCollection,LookUp(t_redbook_sp_ActivityCollection, RBP_MASTER_ID = Value(RBK_EscalationId_txt.Text)),
    { FUNCVP_EMAIL_ADDRESS: RBK_FVP.Text,
    FUNCVP_FIRST_NAME: With(First(Split(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3, "@")),
    {
    FirstName: First(Split(Result, " ")).Result,LastName: Last(Split(Result, " ")).Result
    }
    )


    }

    )

  • RandyHayes Profile Picture
    RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @Anonymous 

    Sure...

     

    With(
 With(First(Split(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3, "@")),
 {
 FirstName: First(Split(Result, " ")).Result,
 LastName: Last(Split(Result, " ")).Result
 }
 ),

 UpdateIf(t_redbook_sp_ActivityCollection,
 RBP_MASTER_ID = Value(RBK_EscalationId_txt.Text),
 { FUNCVP_EMAIL_ADDRESS: RBK_FVP.Text,
 FUNCVP_FIRST_NAME: FirstName,
 FUNCVP_LAST_NAME(assumed): LastName
 }
 )
)

     

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    ok for the first name i did this :

    First(Split(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3, ".")).Result

     

    for the second name i did this :

    Left(Right(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3,Len(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3)-Find(".",glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3)),Find("@",Right(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3,Len(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3)-Find(".",glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3)))-1)

     

    dave

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    RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @Anonymous 

    ?? why all of that?  I provided a formula that will give you first and last name!!??

     

    If you are now stating that the first/last name is separated by a period, then just change that in the formula.

    With(
 With(First(Split(glry_Email_Approval_from_mainform.Selected.FVP_Level3, "@")),
 {
 FirstName: First(Split(Result, ".")).Result,
 LastName: Last(Split(Result, ".")).Result
 }
 ),

 UpdateIf(t_redbook_sp_ActivityCollection,
 RBP_MASTER_ID = Value(RBK_EscalationId_txt.Text),
 { FUNCVP_EMAIL_ADDRESS: RBK_FVP.Text,
 FUNCVP_FIRST_NAME: FirstName,
 FUNCVP_LAST_NAME(assumed): LastName
 }
 )
)
  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    @RandyHayes , 

    I was just working on it while waiting for a response.

    will use your code...and Thanks !!

     

    Dave

  • RandyHayes Profile Picture
    RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @Anonymous 

    Oh...gotcha.  You had me wondering there for a moment. 😉 Glad that worked.

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