Profile: daveG-7

Problem:
How to display author user meta field value within CRED email notification.

Solution:
You can use shortcode [wpv-post-author] to display the first name of post author within your CRED form's email notification body.

For example:

[wpv-post-author format="meta" meta="first_name" id="%%POST_ID%%"]

You can find proposed solution, in this case, with the following reply:
=> https://toolset.com/forums/topic/using-author-user-meta-fields-in-cred-post-form-notification-emails/#post-627464

Relevant Documentation:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-post-author