Hi,

I have a SharePoint list and the created By Field exports as Display name when I export to excel. I would like to auto -populate a field in the SharePoint list that will auto populate the Field with display name of the field when an item is created.

How can I make this possible?

T

Hi,

Can you provide more details(screenshot would be better) about your requirement? It would make others easier to find a solution for you.

Suppose that you might want to populate a field with the value of the Created By field automatically after an item is created.

If this is the case, a suggestion is that you can create a custom Event Receiver for your scenario.

Here is a step by step sample on creating a simple Item added event receiver for Custom List:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff398052.aspx

More information on Event Receiver for your reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg749858(v=office.14).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff408183(v=office.14).aspx

Thanks 

Patrick Liang

I am working with a Survey List and I will need  some help with custom event receiver. 

To be more specific with my requirements, I have a survey list in which I have "Created By" field which populates the value of the user who created the survey. So I need to create another field called "Logon Name of the users" which should populate the username of the user.

Is there a way to do this using workflow?

Hi,

In a SharePoint 2010 platform designer workflow(can run in SharePoint 2013 environment), we can get the user name like this:

http://nikpatel.net/2014/05/02/handy-sharepoint-desinger-2010-workflow-tip-get-current-logged-in-full-user-name/

Then set the value to a column in the current item.

Thanks 

Patrick Liang

Try this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff398052.aspx

• Proposed as answer by GowthamRajamanickam 5 hours 11 minutes ago