Metrics without participants' updated names

[mbaltar]

Description
Greetings.
I am experiencing a problem while getting the participants list of a meeting. If the participants rename themselves in a breakout room, the new name only takes effect when people return to the main room. The list I am getting doesn’t have the current denomination this way. Is there any way to speed up this process without making the participants return to the main room and get back to the breakout rooms to get an updated list?
Thank you very much.
Have a great weekend.
Best regards

Which App Type (OAuth / Chatbot / JWT / Webhook)?
JWT

How To Reproduce (If applicable)
https://api.zoom.us/v2/metrics/meetings/#{MEETING_ID}/participants

[tommy]

Hey @mbaltar ,

This is expected. Please see my post here:

Inlcude name and original_name in Get Past Meeting Participants API

Hey @sparkcontext , thanks for posting and using Zoom! This is actually not a bug, but by design. The Get Past Meeting Participants API will return the name of the participant that is set in their profile, even if they rename themselves in a meeting. (Reason being, renaming yourself or a participant during a meeting only renames them for that meeting instance.) That being said, you could call the Update User API if they are apart of your Zoom account, or have authorized your Ap…

If your issue is different, please provide screenshots and steps to reproduce the issue.

Thanks,
Tommy

[mbaltar]

Good afternoon, @tommy

Thank you so much for your answer. The thing is that I am not using the get past meeting participants. Instead, I am using the metrics to get the current ones, as I have mentioned above. I don’t want to change the participants’ names. Instead, I want to receive a list of the changes they made. I already can do it, but the list is only updated when they leave the breakout rooms and return to the main room (at the same meeting).

Thank you!

[will.zoom]

Hi @mbaltar,

Thanks for confirming. In terms of seeing the updated names, the same behavior would apply to this endpoint as well. However, you raise a good point, and I can certainly appreciate why it would be helpful to have the updated names reflected while participants were still in their breakout rooms, this would still be considered expected behavior.

If you haven’t yet, I would encourage you to submit a feature request for this here: #feature-requests

Thanks,
Will

[mbaltar]

@mbaltar

https://api.zoom.us/v2/metrics/meetings/#{MEETING_ID}/participants

Thank you @will.zoom. I have just submitted the feature request.

Best regards,

@mbaltar

[will.zoom]

Thanks, @mbaltar !