List column "Created By" not showing up in Alert

Question

I have a list with a Created By column set for Display. It comes up in the list view, but doesn't appear in the Alert's email.
There's
Last Modified 3/5/2014 10:08 PM by username
at the bottom of the email, but that's not going to cut it.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Scott

Answer 1

Thanks Matt.
I took a look a the articles from the link (even dug up Trevor's via waybackmachine). The second two seem to be global changes, as you're changing the alerttemplates.xml file itself.
The first article (which I'm going to paste below, all credit to sharepointempower.com of course) has some powershell with $spWeb, which seems to indicate that I can set only a chosen site or subsite to use the custom template.
Anyway, I'm going to give it a try and report back. Here's the sharepointempower.com article from waybackmachine:
SharePoint
2010 Customizing Alert Notifications and Alert Templates
There are good series of article to showing that how to Customize Alert Templates on SharePoint 2010. I have just described step by step procedure to apply our
Custom Alert Templates on SharePoint 2010.
Step 1:
Add a new xml file to this folder called ‘customalerttemplates.xml’. Open the alerttemplates.xml file from
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML\, copy all of its contents into your newly created
customalerttemplates.xml file.
If want to master in “Alert templates” than read below articles:
Discussions:
Customizing Alert Notifications and Alert      Templates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Customizing
Alert Notifications and Alert Templates in      Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Step 2:
All things are done in your custom xml file and let’s to do apply on SharePoint. So open command prompt(Run > cmd) than go to “C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN” directory
stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -filename “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML\ customalerttemplates.xml”
-url http://contoso.com
Step 3:
IISRESET (Run > iisreset)
Step 4:
Restart SharePoint Timer Job Service.
for run below command u need to   open Management Shell.
Start > All Programs > Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products > SharePoint 2010 Management Shell > right click > run as Administrator
Stop SharePoint timer service
net stop “SPTimerV4″
Start SharePoint timer service
net start “SPTimerV4″
Step 5:
Hope you are done!!! But your Custom Alert Template will be able to see only Those subscriber which subscribe for list’s Alert after Applying our Custom Template.But
existing subscriber (subscribe for list’s Alert before Applying our Custom Template) Will not see update Custom Template. They will see OOTB Alert Template. For that we need to Run Power Shell.
PowerShell
if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)
Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
$contentService = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService
$AlertsTemplateCollection = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPAlertTemplateCollection($contentService)
$weburl = "http://contoso.com/Sales/"
$spWeb = Get-SPWeb -Identity $weburl
$spWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = $true;
$splists = $spWeb.lists
$alertslist = $splists["Tasks"]
$alertslist.AlertTemplate = $Alerts
2000
TemplateCollection["<<Your Custom Alert Template >>"]
$alertslist.Update()
$alerts = $spWeb.Alerts
# if more than 0 alerts, iterate through these alerts to see if there is one for the user
if ($alerts.Count -gt 0)
foreach($alert in $spWeb.Alerts)
if (($alert.AlertTemplateName -eq "SPAlertTemplateType.Tasks") -and ($alert.ListUrl -eq "Lists/Tasks"))
echo "Updating" + $alert.AlertTemplateName
$alert.AlertTemplate = $AlertsTemplateCollection["<<Your Custom Alert Template >>"]
$alert.Update($false)
echo "Updated $alert.AlertTemplateName"
$spWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = $false;
$spWeb.Dispose()
Step 6:
Check Immediate Timer Job associate on your Web Application.
Browse to the Central Administration site > Monitoring > Review job definitions
Find the ‘Immediate Alerts’ time job for your web application and click on the link. (There will be one for each web application so make sure you click the correct
one).If not than execute Below commands.
In my case Immediate Timer job does not exist
stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname alerts-enabled -propertyvalue false -url “http://contoso.com”
stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname alerts-enabled -propertyvalue true -url “http://contoso.com”
stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname job-immediate-alerts -propertyvalue “every 2 minutes” -url yourURL
stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs
Have you try to restart the timer job with the command line below? Please again follow my Step No: 4.
Your Immediate Timer job should be attached to your target webapplication. Clieck on Timerjob and trigger the ‘Run Now’ button on this page which will trigger the
alert emails saving you a bit of time. (You can also configure the timer job to run more often if that suits you better)
You should now receive your custom template alert email.
Hope its helps!!!