I am using the following SSJS:
var author = @Author().toString();
var str = author.replace("CN=","");
var str2 = str.replace("O=","");
var str3 = str2.replace("[","");
var str4 = str3.replace("]","");
if("" == str4)
return @Name("[CN]",session.getEffectiveUserName());
else
return var4;
not the perfect way to do it, but...
Question: Why do I get all the users which edited the document in this field? I only want to show the Author of the document.
You get a list of all users because that's what
@Author()
returns. Here is the description of the function taken from the online help: "Returns the names of the authors of the current document."You can use @Subset() to get the latest author:
and to get the original author:
Use
@Name()
to format the name. So to only show the common name part of the original author, do this: