Custom Form Does Not Display “Created By” value

Question

I'm creating a custom form in SharePoint designer and I'd like to display the value of the "Created By" field in a section of the form. I've done this successfully with other columns in the form.

For example, in SPDesigner, I selected the "Title" field and changed the "Format As" value to "Text". As a result, SPDesigner updated the HTML code to look like this: <xsl:value-of select="@Title" />. The result is that the Title field value is displayed (not editable) in the form.

However, when I try to use the code <xsl:value-of select="@Created_x0020_By" /> to display the name of the person who created the list item - nothing displays in this location on the form.

Can anyone tell me how I can display the list item creator's name in my custom form?

Answer 1

This is the way it works for me:

<tr>
    <td valign="top" class="ms-formlabel"><nobr>Created by</nobr></td>
    <td valign="top" class="ms-formbody">
        <SharePoint:CreatedModifiedInfo ControlMode="Display" runat="server">
        <CustomTemplate>
            <SharePoint:FormField FieldName="Author" runat="server" ControlMode="Display" DisableInputFieldLabel="true" /><br/>
            <SharePoint:FieldValue FieldName="Modified" runat="server" ControlMode="Display" DisableInputFieldLabel="true"/>
        </CustomTemplate>
        </SharePoint:CreatedModifiedInfo>
    </td>
</tr>

Answer 2

Try <xsl:value-of select="@Author" /> instead.

Answer 3

I faced similar kind of issue in development. My requirement was to make custom edit form and disable a few fields if the logged in user and the created by of the account was same. I tried retrieving the @Author value using but it always displayed null.

So found a very good solution on it. In designer find the line

Change the ListItem To List. With this you will get all the fields of the list including @Author , @Editor ,@Created and @Modified.

The only issue is you will all the items , so u will have to filter the item based on the id that we get in the querystring