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July 25, 2025
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How to show both first and last name of an user to basic users

  • July 25, 2025
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Hi every one, 

I'm raising a question similar to this post  [mention:a16c4c9385824e0a9ad9e1c5a4c7ea34:46448885d0e64133bbfbf0cd7b0fd6f7:label=How%20to%20make%20other%20users%26%2339%3B%20profile%20information%20%28e.g.%2C%20first%20name%20and%20last%20name%29%20visible%20to%20a%20basic%20user%20on%20a%20report] as it has not been updated since 6 years ago.

The issue I'm having is for this below code,when opening the UI with a system admin account I can see full user name while with a basic user account I can only see user's first name. 

forEach(local!userNames,
user(fv!item, "firstName") & " " & user(fv!item, "lastName"))

I tried the retrieveusersecurityrolemap() recommended in the old post but not sure what to do with the output of the function, because for both accounts I had the same output:  

Can anyone suggest me how to use this function or any other solution to show the same name for both account types? 

Thank you. 

    3 replies

    stefanhelzle0001
    July 25, 2025

    I never had any issues like the one you describe. Can you provide more details?

    shubhama926776
    July 25, 2025

    AFAIK, Basic users can’t see full names by default due to security settings. To show full names, you need to adjust user security roles or permissions his isn’t doable with expressions alone.

    Go through below documentation for better understanding
    https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.2/User_Profile_Visibility.html

    mathieud0001
    July 25, 2025

    You can use the Modify User Security Smart Service to update the security role map.

    docs.appian.com/.../Modify_User_Security_Smart_Service.html