[TYPO3] how to know news creator

[Katja Lampela]

 > Thanks much for your quick hint, Katja.  That's right, I forgot the
little
>  plus sign could turn on the fields to show for each news item.  The only
> inconvenience is if the author field is not filled in by news editor when
> the news article is created, turning on 'author' won't help any.  Seems
> like '[cruser_id]' can tell who created the news item, but it's
> represented in not so straightforward digit format.  Is there any quick
> way to find out the creator's name a cruser_id maps to?

I don't know --- I wonder if there is a way to force author field
automatically filled by the be user name.. sorry, don't know.