Inconsistent behavior of Display name

[annetoal]

A flow writes a row to an Excel table at the end of execution. In the Requested by field, the connector is the user name of the person who triggered the flow. 

Its value is 

triggerOutputs()['headers'][x-ms-user-name-encoded']

Looking at the spreadsheet, you see that two times it displayed the name as the encoded name and the rest of the time it displayed what I want--the Display name.

I'm having trouble understanding why sometimes the Flow writes the same value one way and sometimes the other. Here's the output of a good run

{
  "@odata.context": "https://excelonline-eus2.azconn-eus2.p.azurewebsites.net/DELETED",
  "@odata.etag": "",
  "ItemInternalId": "xxx-7f90-4d8f-a4d1-xxx",
  "File name": "Test",
  "Requested by": "Anne Toal",
  "Date/time requested": "12/21/2020 5:26 PM",
  "Reviewed by": "SharePoint Test1",
  "Date/time reviewed": "12/21/2020 5:26 PM",
  "Status": "Rejected"
}

Here is the output from a run where it didn't display correctly:

{
  "@odata.context": "https://excelonline-eus2.azconn-eus2.p.azurewebsites.net/DELETED",
  "@odata.etag": "",
  "ItemInternalId": "xxx-0bc6-439c-aa72-xxx",
  "File name": "simple.docx",
  "Requested by": "QW5uZSBUb2Fs",
  "Date/time requested": "12/22/2020 8:33 AM",
  "Reviewed by": "SharePoint Test1",
  "Date/time reviewed": "12/22/2020 8:43 AM",
  "Status": "Rejected"
}

Is this a bug? @ScottShearer 

Anne

[ScottShearer · Accepted solution]

@annetoal 

What you are doing is pretty straight forward and you have documented inconsistent results.  I suspect that this is a bug but you'll want to report it here in order to bring it too the attention of the Power Automate team.