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Posted on by Lisa_26 9

Dear Community,

 

I have a SharePoint list with columns that search for people in our organisation using the people function. Via a flow, an email is sent to new people who start with us and one of these people columns is used to indicate a buddy in the email. However, the problem is that the display of the name is not how I want it. Therefore, I want to create a new column in which the name is displayed correctly. What is the best way to do this? Any other ideas?

 

The name display should just be first name last name and not as it currently stands (screenshot).

 

Lisa_26_0-1653474214695.png

 

 

Thank you,

Lisa

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  • Ellis Karim Profile Picture
    Ellis Karim 12,299 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi  @Lisa_26 ,

     

    A SharePoint column has two names:

    1. Display Name is the name you set when you create a new column. This is the visual name that the user sees when they are working with SharePoint list items or documents via forms or view. You can change the Display name.

    2. Internal Name – Internal names are set when you create a new column. You cannot change the internal name later. The internal name is not always same as the display name. Internal names are used to get field values and can be used in trigger conditions and workflows.

    (For more info see: How to find the internal name of a SharePoint column )

     

    To change the Display Name:

     

    (1) Click on the settings icon2021-12-19_23-32-36-1.png(2) Click List settings:

    2021-12-19_23-35-15-1.png

    (3) Click on the column you want to change

    2021-12-19_23-22-52-1.png

    (4) Click on the column name and change the display name the press [OK]

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  • Craig Stewart ABZ Profile Picture
    Craig Stewart ABZ 959 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    From a Power Automate side is this what you are looking to do?

    CraigStewart_0-1653598880745.png

    I used the names from your post, created a Display Name column (AssignedAdmin_x0028_Local_x0029_ ) and did the following:

    CraigStewart_1-1653598972966.png

     

     

    For the DisplayName Compose:

    items('LoopData')?['AssignedAdmin_x0028_Local_x0029_']

     

    AssignedAdmin_x0028_Local_x0029_ is my column name for the Assigned Admin Local column

     

    DeleteFinalSpace 

    replace(outputs('DisplayName'),last(split(outputs('DisplayName'),'[')),'')
     
    The name I've given here is wrong - initially i was removing everything after the last space in the string, but I noticed you had a space inside of your brackets, so what we're doing here is removing everything from the open bracket.
     
    This will give us an output of 
    Lack,, Dalida [
     
    SplitTheComma
    split(outputs('DeleteFinalSpace'), ',')
     
    This splits out the name like this:
    [
      "Lack",
      "",
      " Dalida ["
    ]
     
    Reorder
    concat(outputs('SplitTheComma')[2], ' ', outputs('SplitTheComma')[0])
     
    Rearranges our output, putting the first name [2] first, and the last name [0] second
    and our output looks like:
     Dalida [ Lack
     
    Note there is a space before Dalida so we need to deal with that next
     
    RemoveExtraSpace
    replace(outputs('Reorder'),' ','')
     
    Gives us Dalida[Lack
     
    Our last Compose is
    replace(outputs('RemoveExtraSpace'),'[',' ')
     
    This removes the bracket, replaces it with a space giving us
     
    CraigStewart_2-1653599862056.png

     

     

    Which we can then use to update the item using Update Item action for SharePoint.

     

     

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