Hi Everyone, 

I'm working on a pdf export for Opportunities using a Visualforce page. I am able to grab all the data I need but I can't figure out how to display my lookup data fields properly in the export. 

Here is the instance of the lookup field being used:


It is pulling data from Contacts:


and in the export it displays as the ID and not the name:

I have tried using ".name" in my code: <apex:outputText value="{!Opportunity.Designer_Name__c.Name}"/>

but I get this error: Error: Unknown property 'String.Name'

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Hi Everyone, 

I'm working on a pdf export for Opportunities using a Visualforce page. I am able to grab all the data I need but I can't figure out how to display my lookup data fields properly in the export. 

Here is the instance of the lookup field being used:


It is pulling data from Contacts:


and in the export it displays as the ID and not the name:

I have tried using ".name" in my code: <apex:outputText value="{!Opportunity.Designer_Name__c.Name}"/>

but I get this error: Error: Unknown property 'String.Name'

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!