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We've recently enabled the Unified Interface on our Dynamics 365 CE web client and noticed that the fullname is missing from the Contact forms and several views. It is there when we open the Form editor, but when we're running formContext.getAttribute("fullname") it returns a null.

It's causing us a big headache as we're using the fullname basically everywhere: in forms, views, Document templates, JavaScripts etc.

Has anyone come across this problem or knows a workaround without having to replace the fullname with first and last name everywhere in our environment?

According to Microsoft it's officially not ready before April 2020 (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/about-unified-interface#capabilities-not-yet-on-unified-interface), but we need to start testing before that.

Many thanks in advance

Arun Vinoth-Precog Tech - MVP
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Composite control is not available in UCI yet. So the popup will not be showing up to do data entry. That means the Full name field will display as the child individual fields, ie. First name & Last name. The data changes in any of the First name or Last name will replicate to Full name field.

Only changes needed is in form scripting. Whenever/wherever you are accessing the Full name field like formContext.getAttribute("fullname") just switch it to formContext.getAttribute("firstname") + " " + formContext.getAttribute("lastname") if the script is executing in UCI.

I just tested this quickly in my UCI. Also views showing the Full name field without issues. Templates should not be a problem if data is there. Only problem is in form, so the above script will solve the issue.

Arun Vinoth-Precog Tech - MVP
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  • Hi Arun, thanks. It shows however that there isn't really 1 clever easy step for situation – Reka Nov 17 '19 at 15:07