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Nintex 2013: Show display name in email notification for person field

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In Nintex 2013, requirement was to show the user's "Display name" in email. looks a very simple issue by looking at the definition. However, to achieve this in workflow have to choose proper way to implement. Two options are available to get this. 1. Using "Call web service" action 2. Using " Query user profile" To move ahead with first step, we need to use Regular expression, web service and query xml  as described here in  https://community.nintex.com/thread/1353  lots of configuration require to make this work. as well to store credentials of admin to call the web service, need to make the constant in Nintex management. So In my implementation, I choose second option, fairly simple to use. Steps to use "Query user profile" action to get display name: 1. Add "Query user Profile" from actions tab  2. Double click to configure it, and select the person field , here selecting "Created By" field of t