Controlling Participant Identities

[MaxM]

Hey @aj.feather,

Thank you for the update. My mistake, I thought that you were using the Web SDK in combination with the API. You’re correct, this would only be available through the SDK as the API does not currently have an endpoint to update a participant’s display name in a meeting.

If you are using SSO, I have seen examples of others using that to set a display name that can’t be modified.

How to update display name of the user using zoom api

Hey @gundamaiah.a5, FYI, another method to give a user a different Display Name (rather than firstName and lastName) is if you are using SSO you can use a SAML mapping to add new Display Name. Once you enable this, the user will see the new Display Name attribute in their profile, however it will be greyed out and they cannot modify it. Please note as @MaxM mentioned, currently there is not an API that will allow you to modify this Display Name attribute. It will only be modified/updated via SA…

Otherwise, it does seem this edge case is somewhat of a blind spot and there isn’t a good way to set a participant’s display name using the API. If you would like this feature to be considered for a future release, I recommend posting in the Feature Requests category.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Max