 Hi there, I just want to know, if you dev-guys plan to implement a realname support. I know, users can login with their mail instead of the username. Thats nice. But i need to deactivate the Nickname for my Community completely. To realize it, it's neccessary to link users by ID or a unique random hash. It would be great, if you give us this option in further releases. Thanks! Looking forward for some comments. |
No need to have this function from you other guys? Boonex, do you plan to realize it? |
I think you will have a rough time "deactivating Nickname completely". I haven't tried it yet, but I don't even know what would happen if you removed it from your join form - I doubt if it would work at all. For one thing, if forms part of the url for profiles, and also appears all over the place in the site. One place it is now, for example, is under the pictures whenever there is a member display in a block. On D6, I did a mod that put the member's real names under their pic - and I would like to do that again since I don't think they will make that an option. I'm the one who convinced Boonex to put "support for real names" on the final feature list for D7 - but adding "first name" and "last name" is one small part of the story. I hadn't considered logging in with the full name to be that important. There is a mod for that for D6 but I don't trust it. If I were you, I would live with the email log in, and modify your site as best you can to emphasize real names. Rob |
I think you will have a rough time "deactivating Nickname completely". I haven't tried it yet, but I don't even know what would happen if you removed it from your join form - I doubt if it would work at all. For one thing, if forms part of the url for profiles, and also appears all over the place in the site. One place it is now, for example, is under the pictures whenever there is a member display in a block. On D6, I did a mod that put the member's real names under their pic - and I would like to do that again since I don't think they will make that an option. I'm the one who convinced Boonex to put "support for real names" on the final feature list for D7 - but adding "first name" and "last name" is one small part of the story. I hadn't considered logging in with the full name to be that important. There is a mod for that for D6 but I don't trust it. If I were you, I would live with the email log in, and modify your site as best you can to emphasize real names. Rob I'm working on it since one week. I think about 80% is completed. But you have to be really careful with changing it in the code. (also working in beta's isnt that nice. :( ) I've already deactivated the nickname field in the join form by using a really woolly combination of js and some db-enhancements. But it works so far. Logging in by First- and Lastname isn't neccessary for me. The possibility of using the email-address instead of the nickname works fine for me. Thanks for your reply so far. Would be great if any boonex-stuff gives a comment to this. cheer |
Well I guess I stand corrected - sounds like a complex undertaking though. What happens to the url on your profiles? I tend to think you are swimming upstream on this and this may cause much heartache later. Couldn't you just "deemphasize" the Nickname - i.e. let people know that it is mostly used to form their profile website address - something like what Linkedin does? Anyway, good luck. |
Well I guess I stand corrected - sounds like a complex undertaking though. What happens to the url on your profiles? I tend to think you are swimming upstream on this and this may cause much heartache later. Couldn't you just "deemphasize" the Nickname - i.e. let people know that it is mostly used to form their profile website address - something like what Linkedin does? Anyway, good luck. I thought it might be the easiest way to use the given possibility of linking profiles with the member-id. My current temporary solution is to hide the nickname field and give it a fix value in the join form. After registration, a little update-query sets nickname=registered-id. Then i "just" had to change the "global" (the most modules use their own.. sucks) nickname-generating functions to first/lastname. Up to now i just had to edit some small parts of the core-code. I'll report (bad) success. Regard |
Hi there,
I just want to know, if you dev-guys plan to implement a realname support. I know, users can login with their mail instead of the username. Thats nice. But i need to deactivate the Nickname for my Community completely.
To realize it, it's neccessary to link users by ID or a unique random hash.
It would be great, if you give us this option in further releases.
Thanks! Looking forward for some comments.
This is exactly what I would like to see done as well! |
I should also mention I need this same function of Real Name support (eliminate Nick Name completely on sign up as well) for Dolphin 7.0.6 |
I recall a ticket for the support of display names in a future version. You'll probably see this feature in Dolphin 8.
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I support your idea and initiative. We don't need to wait for Boonex to handle everything since they are swamped with work and don't always have the time to fix or change things. I wish they would have some priority importance but it is what it is. I will be very happy if you succeed to solve this Nickname/Real name issue once and for all. Thanks dknadmin! Sometimes communicating your problem and putting it out there is enough to solve it |
For those interested in displaying "RealName" (FirstName LastName), check out this forum discussion.
I've made the change to my website, but there is not enough space under the profile to display the last name as well, but it's a good start.
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I think you will have a rough time "deactivating Nickname completely". I haven't tried it yet, but I don't even know what would happen if you removed it from your join form - I doubt if it would work at all. For one thing, if forms part of the url for profiles, and also appears all over the place in the site.
One place it is now, for example, is under the pictures whenever there is a member display in a block. On D6, I did a mod that put the member's real names under their pic - and I would like to do that again since I don't think they will make that an option. I'm the one who convinced Boonex to put "support for real names" on the final feature list for D7 - but adding "first name" and "last name" is one small part of the story. I hadn't considered logging in with the full name to be that important. There is a mod for that for D6 but I don't trust it. If I were you, I would live with the email log in, and modify your site as best you can to emphasize real names.
Rob I'm working on it since one week. I think about 80% is completed. But you have to be really careful with changing it in the code. (also working in beta's isnt that nice. :( )
I've already deactivated the nickname field in the join form by using a really woolly combination of js and some db-enhancements. But it works so far. Logging in by First- and Lastname isn't neccessary for me. The possibility of using the email-address instead of the nickname works fine for me.
Thanks for your reply so far. Would be great if any boonex-stuff gives a comment to this.
cheer changing your code, good luck with upgrading ManOfTeal.COM a Proud UNA site, six years running strong! |
This is the only Dolphin website i have seen that managed to place the full name instead of the nicknames. http://www.kartingconnect.com/ Any ideas how he did that? Sometimes communicating your problem and putting it out there is enough to solve it |
