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People/Group Column Converts Name to a Number in SharePoint Online
This error is occurring in several site collections throughout our environment. We have a list set up with a People or Group column. The list will display the name in the first item as expected, but ...
ellier2091 Good question... Forgot all about this. I just tested on a SP2019 with the September 2021 CU and it seems to work fine.
As far as I can tell I'm only having the issue on one list, and only for items that existed before the CU upgrade. It also seems that the issue occurs as soon as there are items on the list from both before and after the CU upgrade. If I delete all new items, the issue goes away. If I delete all old items, the issue goes away. The new items that I create render fine, though I did encounter an anomaly where deleting 1 old item made 1 new item render names as numbers.