# Need a way to get User Name from a User Object passed into function

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/need-a-way-to-get-user-name-from-a-user-object-passed-into-function/16324>\
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**Created:** [May 5, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/need-a-way-to-get-user-name-from-a-user-object-passed-into-function/16324 "2026-05-05T17:25:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlakeBou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/blakebou/32/9459_2.png) [@BlakeBou](https://community.tulip.co/u/BlakeBou)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/need-a-way-to-get-user-name-from-a-user-object-passed-into-function/16324/1 "2026-05-05T17:25:46Z")

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Similar to [Extract User Name Text from User Table](https://community.tulip.co/t/extract-user-name-text-from-user-table/915)

We are trying to pass a list of users into a function and store the user’s user name into a table because we can’t filter an interactive table based on the user’s name only on strict equality.

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**Author:** ![OlgaStroilova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/olgastroilova/32/7199_2.png) [@OlgaStroilova](https://community.tulip.co/u/OlgaStroilova)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/need-a-way-to-get-user-name-from-a-user-object-passed-into-function/16324/2 "2026-05-23T14:12:34Z")

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Thanks @BlakeBou for the post – I noted on the linked thread that I’m looking into it.

Is this different than the linked thread? i.e. if you could access the User Name from the User Table or otherwise, would that be sufficient or are you reporting an underlying problem with table filtering?

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**Author:** ![BlakeBou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/blakebou/32/9459_2.png) [@BlakeBou](https://community.tulip.co/u/BlakeBou)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/need-a-way-to-get-user-name-from-a-user-object-passed-into-function/16324/3 "2026-05-26T17:03:55Z")

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Hi @OlgaStroilova,

Notice how when setting up a filter on an interactive table the only options are equality.

We need a way to search the table based on the user typing part of an operators name. We’ve resorted to storing the operator as both a “User” type and a “Text” type to enable filtering.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/c/ce6b77490c6705aaba9afb28651c13815bd847c4.png)