How to get user full name from user id

[tsoct]

In Performance analytic, I need to get the full name of the agent from the created_by field. And the script below doesn't seem work.

Any idea why?

function getUser(userName) {

        var grUs = new GlideRecord('sys_user');

        grUs.get('name',userName);

        return grUs.getValue('sys_id') || '';

}

getUser(current.jour_sys_created_by);

**created_by is a string, not reference. Hence I am unable to use getDisplayValue.

**example: User id = admin; Full name = System administrator

[Saikiran Gudur1]

Hi Everyone,

That is too easy -

gs.getUser().getUserByID('abel.tuter').getFullName();

This single line syntax can give you the required info rather going to define a function.

Here are more example usages of similar syntax:-

var fullname = gs.getUser().getUserByID('abel.tuter').getFullName();
gs.print("fullname : "+fullname);

var firstname = gs.getUser().getUserByID('abel.tuter').getFirstName();
gs.print("firstname : "+firstname);

var lastname = gs.getUser().getUserByID('abel.tuter').getLastName();
gs.print("lastname : "+lastname);

var email = gs.getUser().getUserByID('abel.tuter').getEmail();
gs.print(email);

var sysid = gs.getUser().getUserByID('abel.tuter').getID();
gs.print("sysid : "+sysid);

var userid = gs.getUser().getUserByID('abel.tuter').getName();
gs.print("userid : "+userid);


Output:-
*** Script: fullname : Abel Tuter
*** Script: firstname : Abel
*** Script: lastname : Tuter
*** Script: abel.tuter@example.com
*** Script: sysid : 62826bf03710200044e0bfc8bcbe5df1
*** Script: userid : abel.tuter

Thanks,

Saikiran Guduri

Associate Certification Engineer | ServiceNow

[A_]

this line of code works when you know specific information.  coding is to work when you know little to nothing.

this code is an ok test of an application's code prior to deployment.

TEST
var sysid = gs.getUser().getUserByID('abel.tuter').getID();
gs.print("sysid : "+sysid);

vs

DEPLOY
var sysid = gs.getUser().getUserByID(VariablePassedIn).getID();
gs.print("sysid : "+sysid);

[jamesjurden]

You can use - 

gs.log(gs.getUser().getUserByID(gs.getUserName()).getFullName());