Business Requirement: Use the Name user property in an Email sent out by a Workflow
Suppose following scenario: you have created a site based on the Help Desk template, one of the Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you have added a Workflow to the Service Requests list which sends out an email each time a service request is changed to the Service Representative.
Problem is that the user information in the email will be the Account, though you would prefer to have the Name in the email.Solution: Use the Useful Sharepoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities solution
The Useful Sharepoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities solution adds some Workflow activities to the ones out of the box. One interesting activity is the one to lookup user info. This activity can be used to have the Name in the sent email in stead of the Account.
To achieve this, follow the next steps:
If you now edit a Service Request, you'll have the Name nicely in the sent Email in stead of the Account. In the same way you could add other User Information fields to the sent out Email.
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I get ???? when I type in LinkTitle into the property name. Should I see LinkTitle as as choice or do I have to type it in the txt field?
Hi Wade'r,
did you try it out on a newly created item? Or did the item exist already before you've created/modified the workflow with the LinkTitle modification in it?
I added a Person column called "supervisor" to my user information. I then added "supervisor" as a CC in an email in my workflow. When it sends out an email it puts 23; #supervisor's name in the CC. Any idea what my problem is?
I am having an issue with the add-on. When I add it to my site, the "initiate when item is created" functionality breaks. Using MOSS 2007. Workflow can still be initiated manually, but the creation and update events are not kicking off the workflow. Has anyone else had this problem?
A great tutorial where one can get a instant knowledge from.Thanks so much for these wonderful sharing.
I'm having trouble locating the "Lookup User Site Property" from the list of Workflow Actions. This action does not appear in my list, even when I expand it. I'm using SP Designer 2007
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