Use First Name in Users list

AndrewClark
AndrewClark
in Security and tenant administration

hi, I know we can now use the Users list in our modules, but can we use any of the other properties from the User list?

 

Similar to the new U/X, I like to show a welcome greeting on our landing dashboards, and we can get the greeting to show the full email address based off the users list, by someone's email address is a bit impersonal.

If possible, I'd like to be able to look up the first name column from the users list.

So my greeting would be 'Hello Andrew', rather than 'Hello Andrew.Clark@xxxxxx'

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Andrew.

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  • DavidSmith
    DavidSmith

    If you build out a module dimensioned by the users list, you could have two line items for first and last name, then you could publish those that line item(s) to the dashboard

    Hope that helps

    David

  • AndrewClark
    AndrewClark

    Thanks David, that's how I'd like it to work. However, I don't know how to reference the 'First Name' property of the Users list.

    I've got the full email address working by writing 'NAME(ITEM(Users))', but it doesn't let me select the 'First Name' column, or change the formula to 'NAME(ITEM(Users.First Name)) for example. Any thoughts on the specifics?

     

    Thanks, Andrew.

  • AndrewClark
    AndrewClark

    Thanks a lot Kavin, that works fine!

    Cheers, Andrew.

  • DavidSmith
    DavidSmith

    Ok, you probably know what I'm going to say

     

    "just because you can doesn't mean you should"

    But seriously, hopefully you know by now that we should avoid complex formulae

    Planual rule 2.02-18

    https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Planual/ct-p/Planual

     

    This is a much more efficient solution

    1. In the module by users add 4 line items as shown

    2019-07-09_11-38-15.png

    The formulas are:

    Find . - FIND(".", NAME(ITEM(Users)))

    Find @ - FIND("@", NAME(ITEM(Users)))

    First Name - LEFT(NAME(ITEM(Users)), 'Find .' - 1)

    Last Name - MID(NAME(ITEM(Users)), 'Find .' + 1, Find @ - 'Find .' - 1)

     

    David

     

     

  • kavinkumar
    kavinkumar

    HI @DavidSmith,

    I think above soln will not work if the user has only one name!! That is the reason I added one more condition to that formula (Looking little big  🙂 & complex). Example attached below.

    Use First Name in Users list 2.PNG

     

  • DavidSmith
    DavidSmith

    True, but you can use the LENGTH() formula to work for that.  My point is splitting up the formulae is better

     

    But, if the email address doesn't reflect the actual first and last names, it would be better to import into the module from an export of the users tab, removing the need for any formulae

     

    David

  • harish_bk
    harish_bk

    Hi @DavidSmith

     

    If we can see a documented proof that splitting formula is best way it would be really helpful.

     

    We normally try to have huge formulas in one line item due to workspace sizing limitations and your documents would give us insight to do the best.

  • DavidSmith
    DavidSmith

    @harish_bk 

    There is no formal documented evidence, the effect will vary case by case

    However, some examples are:

    11 min open times reduce to 60s

    30s calculations reduce to 1s

    a 10 second calculation reduce to 0.01s

     

    The way the Anaplan engine works with the hyper block and multi threading, the more formulas are broken up the more task be run in parallel and split into sub tasks.

     

    It is often better to have a slightly larger model that runs much quicker than a small model that is crammed with massive formulae.  Model size does not correlate to performance.  Model design does. 

     

    Massive, complex formulae breaks so many rules within the PLANS standard I can't list them all here.

    We have put together the standard based on proven results;  so, huge massive formulas are bad practice and should be avoided whenever possible

     

    If you haven't already, please read the various articles linked to in the Planual and also see the two part blog on sparsity for more information.

    https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Planual/ct-p/Planual

    https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Blog/The-Planual-Rises/ba-p/48321

    https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Blog/The-Truth-About-Sparsity-Part-1/bc-p/44584

    https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Blog/The-Truth-About-Sparsity-Part-2/bc-p/44778

     

    David

  • harish_bk
    harish_bk

    Hi @DavidSmith 

     

    Yes we do know about the articles mentioned :).

     

    Thanks for the links anyway.

     

    When we say size its the maximum workspace size limitation and was not related to performance.

  • Marina Ketelslegers
    Marina Ketelslegers
    How about this: user email is coded like marl56@xxx.com where First Name would be Marina? is there a way to get to the property First Name from the User list?

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