How to get the "Created by" value from system information to be printed in a custom layout?

depends on the record but it should be

recordcreatedby

how to get the name instead of the ID?

assuming that youre talking about transaction records, you can also use ${record.salesrep}

i'm using Advanced PDF/HTML Templates

if you ever need to find specific field values from any record, you an append the URL of the record with

&xml=t

and it will show the .xml of the record with all its values.

wow. nice. thanks a lot

i would test digging another layer into that record.

${record.recordcreatedby.entityid}

. i dont think you can dig that many layers in advanced pdfs though but i dont have the time to verify.

it doesn't work; but what I currently know is

${record.recordcreatedby} == entity.id

and I need either

entity.altname

or

entity.entitytitle

Yea not to sure. Not the best work around but you could make a custom text field within the record to reference. Theres probably a more better way to do it but thats all i got. 😄

that's what other admins have done for other records. workflow to write current record user to a custom created by field.

From what ive seen and experienced (only been admining NS for almost a year now), not really lol.

I can see a

${companyInformation.addressText}

variable in the code (that can't be seen in the xml record); I'm confident there must be something similar for system information

Possibly. That information is in Setup -> Company -> Company Information

my workaround which is only possible if expecting a small list of record creators:

<td><#if record.recordcreatedby == "3023">
		test1
	<#elseif record.recordcreatedby == "3024">
		test2
	</#if></td>

yea the method above would be a lot of upkeep

would something like ${record.recordcreatedby.name} return text?

no, it wouldn't