topic Re: Show pretty user name in Portal in Report Server

Show pretty user name in Portal

Philipp_A — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:23:01 GMT

Hello,

currently a user login is shown in the format Domain/T012345. Also this is shown when a user puts a comment to a report.

This is not really user friendly. Is it possible to show just the actual name of user instead of this? The information is in our Active Directory, it just needs to be displayed by the Report Server.

Best Regards

Philipp

Re: Show pretty user name in Portal

lbendlin — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:01:19 GMT

What's the business value of showing that data? Most of the users looking at your report should know who they are, no?

Re: Show pretty user name in Portal

Philipp_A — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:21:00 GMT

In the comment section of each report, users only see the technical names of other comment writers.

Re: Show pretty user name in Portal

lbendlin — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:22:26 GMT

Power BI has Active Directory connectors. They are awfully slow but if your AD is small then this may be an option. Alternatively you can load a static reference table.

Re: Show pretty user name in Portal

Philipp_A — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:59:28 GMT

Thanks Ibendlin for the response!

And is it possible to use a static reference table to alter things on the Power BI Portal itself? This must be hardcoded somewhere?

I think what you suggest, is for changing the displayed user within a report.

Re: Show pretty user name in Portal

lbendlin — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:31:31 GMT

I see what you mean. If this is important to you please consider voting for an existing idea or raising a new one at https://ideas.powerbi.com