Confiforms: createdBy returns [owner] results but not the username

[David]

Hi,

I've created a form with an IFFT email that includes the field "createdBy" in the email successfully so I can see who submitted it.

However, in the page used as a "log of entries" where I simply use the confiform table view macro, each entry is displayed as [owner] instead of the username. 

What am I doing wrong?

Data center v8.5.18, Confiforms v3.18.4

Thanks!

DB

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Sorry @David 

Could you elaborate more on the TableView configuration? Not sure I understand how the [owner] thing can be related here

[David]

Hi @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ ,

The Table view macro generates this:

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Have you imported data into this form somehow? Or how is the form itself is configured and gets the data?

[David]

This is the result of a confiform I created for webinar requests. The email generated does provide the username. 

I then use the table view macro to display a list of entries as a log for reference.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Do you set this field yourself?

[David]

Not in the form definition only in the IFFT for email generation and it gets picked in the Table View macro

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Not sure I understand 

could you share configuration of the form? Looks like it is not a built in createdBy field, but something else

[David]

I'm sorry I just realized it's my mistake. 

I had a field copied over from a previous form that was incorrectly set up. 

sincere apologies.

In my previous form I used a field to prompt the username of the person submitting the form that would display in the Table View macro rendered list.

With the IFTT I can get it and insert it into the email using the reserved field name "createdBy" but how can you show it in the Table View macro without prompting the user ?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

No worries

You can add a ConfiForms Field macro into the TableView, setting it's field name parameter to be createdBy

[David]

ok but that means I have to define each field I want to show instead of showing them all by default when no field is mentioned. 

I guess that's the price of wanting to display additional information.

Thanks!

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Yes, that's right

Sorry about that - custom views require you to configure them. 

But the good thing is that you can show the subset of fields or changed the order of fields. So you have the full control

[David]

Makes sense!