issue2551413 - Broken MultiLink columns in CSV export (take 2) Changed how I solved this. Restored the original line that cmeerw took out, but use the 'id' field rather than the 'name' field. The if statements folowing the line change it to the 'name' field (realname if it's a user object): if there is one. Updated the tests to test for this error and exercise the code. I had to change the test to create/add messages to an issue. This required that I suppress the sending of nosy messages using SENDMAILDEBUG env var.