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JSON column formatting extract first and last name from @me
This is the best I can find to extract first and last name, hopefully all email addresses have the same convention.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/formatting-syntax-reference
replace(substring(@me, 0, indexOf(@me, '@')), '.', ' ')
- This code worked brilliantly for me, however there was a slight issue. If the logged in user's email is not already capitalised in the format Firstname.Lastname@... the code won't capitalise the first letters. Is there possibly a work around that would capitalise the letters of a name from the email format firstname.lastname@... ?
DoraL420 Currently, there is no default operator/function available in SharePoint JSON formatting to auto-capitalize first letter in the word.
SharePoint JSON formatting currently only supports toLowerCase() and toUpperCase() to convert string into all lower case and upper case. Also, these operators/functions are only supported in SharePoint Online and not in SharePoint 2019.
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SSantos "@me" will evaluate only to the email address of the current logged in user and you cannot extract display name (first/last name) from this directly like other people fields.
For other people fields, you can use below properties (sample data):
{ "id": "122", "title": "Kalya Tucker", "email": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "sip": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "picture": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/kaylat_contoso_com_MThumb.jpg?t=63576928822", "department":"Human Resources", "jobTitle":"HR Manager" }where "title" returns the display name of people field.
So, to get the display name of current user, you have to use the expression like you are using.
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