How do I show in column the users full name instead of their username?

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riahc3

• November 26, 2015 09:36

Hello

 

I have user1 who is actually in AD "Bob Johnson" I have user2 who is actually "Ashley Grater" how do I show their full names in a seperate column in PDQ Inventory?

 

Thank you

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  riahc3

  • November 27, 2015 09:36

  Is this posible?

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  Brigg Angus

  • November 30, 2015 21:31

  Hi,
  Thanks for your recent forum post. This is in response to that via our ticketing system. I wanted to reach out and let you know this has been put in as a feature request previously. I will also add your request to the existing ticket. The reason we haven't implemented something like this before is that, despite the appearance, it's actually quite a large undertaking to put in the framework to pull that information from AD. I don't have a timeline on when this will be implemented or what version, but it is in as a request, and one I think is very worthwhile. Let me know if you have any questions, additions, or issues.

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  riahc3

  • December 04, 2015 10:45

  Thank you for your reply.

  Well, as a "quick fix" you could always call it thru powershell:

  Get-ADUser [CurrentUser] | Select -Property Name

  That returns the full name of the current user logged in.

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  Brigg Angus

  • December 04, 2015 16:55

  And you could script that for the environment as well, which several of our customers have done. Getting the information from AD isn't difficult, but error handling, inconsistencies, n+1 users logged into a system, etc. as well as formatting that into a report/collection, not to mention what to do with AD service accounts, all pose programmatic issues. But it's worth it, especially in large environments.

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  riahc3

  • December 07, 2015 14:47

  "And you could script that for the environment as well, which several of our customers have done."

   

  Maybe I havent understood that correctly; Is it already possible to add this as a script to a column? It would be enough for me personally.

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  Brigg Angus

  • December 07, 2015 18:26

  You can create custom fields, you could even create the command above as a custom tool, but there currently isn't a way for you to get that information and then place it (automatically) within a report.

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  Michael Muni

  • December 07, 2015 20:37

  +1

  Via Batch Script

  @echo off for /f "tokens=2*" %%a in ('net user "%Username%" /domain ^| find /i "Full Name"') do set DisplayName=%%b echo Your display name is "%DisplayName%"

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