Q: How do I display a user-friendly value?

Problem: When using an entity picker on an InfoPath2010 form, the textbox populates with the ID of the selected value. Instead, you want to display a user-friendly value. How do you do this?

For this Q&A we’ll be using the second value from the picker in Figure 1:

When the second value is selected the page is populated with the ID, which you can see in Figure 2:

Solution: To display more user-friendly text to the user, in InfoPath Designer 2010, specify the Finder Name and Display Name properties in the External Item Picker properties for the entity picker, which Figure 3:

After republishing the form, the page will display the user-friendly text, which you can see in Figure 4.

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