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Planner User Ids (Created By, Assigned To, Assigned By) to Display Name

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Posted on by carlom_iptech 17

I'm following one of the posts that explains how to convert Planner users IDs to Display Names using "Get user profile (V2)"

 

However, I'm running into failures when the UPN is not a GUID. It's some string that looks like this:

 

ja1NMv8Bv0yH8DTxSDwK12UAPTX8

 

My list of User Ids are a mix of the above an GUIDs by the way. I find that odd, too.

 

How do I get display names that works for both GUIDs and the type above?

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  • carlom_iptech Profile Picture
    carlom_iptech 17 on at

    It appears the 28 character Ids are of former employees. How do I retrieve Display Names for them?

  • v-qiaqi@microsoft.com Profile Picture
    v-qiaqi@microsoft.com Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @carlom_iptech,

    Here I give you an example based on AssignedTo.

    1). When you use the ‘assignments’ dynamic content from a Planner task, you will get an object, where you need to extract the user id within.

    2). You can use the ‘Select’ action in a similar way as when extracting user email addresses from user objects.

    vqiaqimsft_1-1698720129100.png

    3). The output will be an array that’ll contain only the ‘userId’. Add an ‘Apply to each’, use the ‘Select’ output as the input, and ‘Get user profile’ for each of the ids. 

    vqiaqimsft_2-1698720163056.png

     

     

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