Replacing ID's by Names

Can anybody tell me how I can replace the ID's used in DropDownBoxes and e-mails by (their corresponding) Names? Like this, we can make a selection out of actual persons instead of their ID's (after all, we're humans, not numbers). It's also much easier to select names, instead of ID-numbers of which we can't remember which person is behind it.

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Adam Stoller

This is possible through customization / scripting. You need a source (flat file, ldap, password file, whatever) for the information, and then you need to read that source and turn it into an HTML select list with the label being the "real name" and the value being the userid (TeamSite requires the userid for authentication)

If you search the forums here, I think you'll find at least one or two examples of such code - or at least detailed conversations about how to implement it.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Migrateduser

Thx, but before posting this Question I already searched the Forum for an example of such code and I didn't find any...
Should I search for other keywords than ID and Names?
Can you lead me in the right direction, please?
Kind regards,
Dirkio

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Adam Stoller

Maybe someone else can - right now I'm on a dialup line - and it's pretty hard just getting through the posts - let alone trying to do other's searches.

If you're comfortable programming - it's really not that difficult. If you're not comfortable programming - you should enlist a colleague or consultant who is, explain what you want - and they should be able to figure it out fairly quickly.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)