I have created a SharePoint 2010 workflow using SPDesigner2010. This workflow sends out a html formatted email using several combined dynamic strings whenever someone publishes a blog post. The dynamic "live" data pulled and displayed in the final email is: Title, Created By, Category.

My problem is that when I set it to created by, the information pulled is the employee ID number. I would like to be able to use their full name instead of their respective ID number. When I check the list where the posts are stored, in the created by column the values are full names.

If anyone could point me in the riht direction it would bve very much appreciated.

I have created a SharePoint 2010 workflow using SPDesigner2010. This workflow sends out a html formatted email using several combined dynamic strings whenever someone publishes a blog post. The dynamic "live" data pulled using lookup and displayed in the final email is: Title, Created By, Category.

My problem is that when I use lookup for created by, the information pulled is the employee ID number. I would like to be able to use their full name instead of their respective ID number. When I check the list where the posts are stored, in the created by column the values are full names.

Summary: How can I have the full name of an employee appear instead of their ID number when using the lookup "created by" in a "Extract substring from index of string"?

Being able to do this would allow me to create a notification email for a sharepoint blog using the Title, Full Name and Blog Category.

If anyone could point me in the right direction it would bve very much appreciated.