Getting the initials from a people's columns

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Hi there.

I hope someone could point me in the right direction here:

I have a people column in my sharepoint list. and I am displaying in my gallery the person picture. with an image like this:

ThisItem.Project_Manager.Picture.

But Some of my users doesn't have a picture. I juts see something like this:

I want to show a label only if the Project MAnager has been selected and if the Project Manager Doesn't have a picture.

Thanks in advanc for any response.

BTW the label that I want to show is the Project Manager initials but that part I've got it working. Thx

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SebS 4,793 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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You can try like this :

Label visible:

If( Not(IsBlank(ThisItem.Project_Manager)) && IsBlank(ThisItem.Project_Manager.Picture), true, false )

Now label :

Left(ThisItem.Project_Manager.DisplayName, 1) & Mid(ThisItem.Project_Manager.DisplayName, Find(" ", ThisItem.Project_Manager.DisplayName) + 1, 1)

There is also another option to use Split and First if you have First Name and Surname field in User Profile

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Hey @SebS , thank you very much for your prompt response. I have applied your formula. But I can not see the label after implemented.

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The formula checks if the Project manager is not blank and the Picture is blank.

You can, for now, place true to see the label. I'm unsure if no image is shown as default, which will mess with that formula.

I will need to check in test App I do not remember from top of my head 🙂

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No worries. Take your time. I guess the blank picture is taking as a result that in fact the user has a Photo.
I will wait for your test.
Thanks in advance

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Yes, DefaultImage is used, so it's tricky to do the verification. You can try the below code in the Visible property:

!IsBlank(ThisItem.Project_Manager.Email) && Office365Users.UserPhotoMetadata(ThisItem.Project_Manager.Email).HasPhoto

The code for initials is working ok

now there is a blog about how to achieve this as well so have a look into this :

https://www.matthewdevaney.com/power-apps-display-a-user-photo-or-initials/

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This is the result fotr the latest formula:

As you can see the user with photo is showing also the label with the initials.

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Try only use :

!(Office365Users.UserPhotoMetadata(ThisItem.Project_Manager.Email).HasPhoto)

This shows a boolean when a photo is there so use ! to say if the Picture is Not there, show true

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Awesome! 😀
That one works !
Thank you very much for your help! 👍👍👍👍👍

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No Problem 🙂

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