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Michael3.Brown
How Can I Display a User's Name Rather than His or Her ID?
Hello, I have created a VisualForce page that calls an SSQL statement and displays the records in my database. All my fields are displaying correctly, except my "Owner" field, which is a user lookup.
On this field, the User ID is displaying instead of the User name.
For example, I am seeing:
Owner
00530000004FXC5AAO
00530000004FYJJAA4
when I really want to be seeing
Owner
Steve Perry
Leroy Jenkins
My The object API for Owner is called: Owner__c. Do I need to attach an attribute to this in order to see the user's name rather than their ID?
If you use outputField it will automatically show the name instead of the id, and turn the field into a link to the lookup record (in this case the user record for owner).
If you don't want to use outputField, you can always access the name on the parent record, like {!myObject.owner__r.name}
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If you use outputField it will automatically show the name instead of the id, and turn the field into a link to the lookup record (in this case the user record for owner).
If you don't want to use outputField, you can always access the name on the parent record, like {!myObject.owner__r.name}
Hey Jill,
Thanks for the reply. That was it! I was usin outputText instead of outputField, but it is working now.
Thanks!
Mike