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in Microsoft Teams JavaScript library user.displayname is always empty
Hello, Using TeamsJS library v2 : microsoftTeams.initialize();
microsoftTeams.getContext((context) => {
console.log("microsoftTeams context", context);
}); But context.user.displa...
Sayali-MSFT
Microsoft
Microsoftvovanb -This is by design behavior. Teams has never returned the displayName in the app context.
So how I can obtain user display name from Teams Tab application?
- Sayali-MSFT
vovanb - You can authenticate the user and get their name from the auth token:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/tabs/how-to/authentication/tab-sso-overview- To be honest I am not happy with your answer - the documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/tabs/how-to/access-teams-context?tabs=Json-v2%2Cteamsjs-v2
show that "user": has "displayName" but it does not says that it will be always empty.
Why if it is not available you return it?- Sayali-MSFTvovanb -Engineering team considering this as feature request. It will take time to available this publicly so that for workaround they suggest that you can authenticate the user and get their name from the auth token.
We will let you know once we get any update regarding this feature.
