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0D51Y00006HRTwgSAHOkta Classic EngineIntegrationsAnswered2025-04-20T09:00:23.000Z2019-05-22T09:47:35.000Z2023-11-09T09:39:29.000Z

SeanC.42081 (Customer) asked a question.

Sharepoint picker display name

We have successfully integrated the v2.3 OKTA people picker for SharePoint 2013. However, when we pick a user we get a display name of "Firstname Surname (Email)" which is too long for the SharePoint UI - How can we configure the picker and/or OKTA profile to use "Firstname Surname" or the displayName attribute shown in OKTA as the SharePoint DisplayName attribute when the person is picked?


  • SeanC.42081 (Customer)

    Note: SharePoint internal property name mapped from AD Display Name is actually "PreferredName"

  • isthatDinu (Okta, Inc.)

    Hi Sean,

     

    This is Marius with Okta support. As the use-case provided regarding the SharePoint People Picker has a certain complexity, I would recommend opening up a support ticket with us. I did also check and there seem to be an already opened support ticket (#00617461) and currently being worked on by Ben Read from your side. Please refer to the ticket for more information.

     

     

     

    Thank you,

    Marius Dinu

    Okta Customer Support

     

     

     

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  • btlmr (btlmr)

    Hi Sean and Marius,

     

    We are facing the same issue, did you get it fixed?

    • SeanC.42081 (Customer)

      Our SP2013 is decommissioned now but if I remember we ended up having to decompile and reverse engineer the OKTA picker so we could fork to our own custom version.
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Sharepoint picker display name