Displaying users nicely in Power Apps forms ...
- Tony Ogilvie
- Oct 15
- 1 min read
Recently, I got a query from a Power Apps form developer asking why users selected in User-Fields on their forms were showing up in this strange format:
This format is the SharePoint claims-encoded login name for the user; luckily it’s easy to change this to a more human-readable version in your form!
If you look at the properties of the control itself on the Power Apps form, you’ll see the DisplayFields property, which will be set to [“Claims”], e.g.,
This is basically the claims property of the User Object that is being displayed in the field. We don’t want to display this ‘Claims’ value for the user, we want to display their human name 😊; to do this, you can just change the DisplayFields property value to ["DisplayName"] ... and voilà !
Much better!
(also, as you can guess, you can also put in ["Email"] instead if you’d rather show the email address of the user!)
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