I am trying to retrieve announcement titles and the creator of those announcements. I am currently retrieving the announcement titles correctly. However when I am retrieving the 'Author' of announcement I get a wierd response back from the server. <Query> <Where> <And> <IsNotNull> <FieldRef Name='Title'> </IsNotNull> <IsNotNull> <FieldRef Name='Author'> </IsNotNull> </And> <Where> <OrderBy> <FieldRef Name='Title' Ascending='true' /> <FieldRef Name='Author' Ascending='true' /> <OrderBy> </Query> This Retrieves: Title: Get Started With Microsoft SharePoint Foundation! Created By: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FieldUserValue I will try and get the code up by today, but i am using the ClientContext object model in order to retrieve list data from sharepoint.

Hi afire007, Thank you for your question. I am trying to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue. Thanks, Lhan Han

thank you for the help. I have actually managed to get much farther in my project since this post. I have pretty much created a fully functional client side web application that can retrieve core items and document files based on the user that has logged in. I still seem to have an issue with this though. All of the announcements made seem to have Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FieldUserValue

Hi, The object that you get FieldUserValue contains a property "LookupValue" that could be used get a description of the user that the value of a lookup field for a list item is referring to. Try using the following stub to retrieve information of the Author of the announcement: objFieldUserValue.LookupValue.ToString(); Also check the following link for example/reference: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/anavijai/get-the-spfielduservaluecollection-values-using-client-object-model-in-sharepoint-2010/ Hope this helps! Regards, Devang Bhavsar

I believe this should do it: ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUri); List userList = clientContext.Web.SiteUserInfoList; ListItem userItem = userList.GetItemById(user.LookupId); clientContext.Load(userItem, item => item["Name"]); clientContext.ExecuteQuery(); string userName = userItem["Name"] as string; Hope it helps,