User function in 17.2

RE: User function in 17.2

Colton Beck — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:27:26 GMT

Great. Glad you were able to solve it.

RE: User function in 17.2

Nishad Sundar — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:26:10 GMT

Hello,

I just found out that the users we were trying to look for in the 17.2 environment only existed in the 16.3 environment. So the user function running on a user that does not exist at all would obviously throw an error. The user function works just fine.

Thanks,
Nishad Sundar

RE: User function in 17.2

Colton Beck — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:21:37 GMT

I'm also using 17.2.

RE: User function in 17.2

Colton Beck — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:19:56 GMT

The user() function is working on my end to return attributes of deactivated users.

Are you positive the username this is failing on is actually an existing username in your environment? You can check this in the Admin Console as mentioned earlier.

RE: User function in 17.2

Nishad Sundar — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:05:43 GMT

Hi,

The use case is to display the names of poeple who submitted requests in our application. There could be some who might have submitted requests before they left and got deactivated. I have the usernames and am converting them to firstnames using the user function. This worked fine in 16.3, but doesn't in 17.2.

Thanks,
Nishad Sundar

RE: User function in 17.2

Colton Beck — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:01:14 GMT

If you're just looking to find the first name of this particular user, you can do so through the Users tab of the Admin Console, ensuring that Inactive users are included as well.