Tellitip 28: Using Display Names
Hey there IndiansFanJoe3456! Wow, that's a mouthful. Chances are that you have one of these accounts on a site that doesn't let you be you because someone else is already you! One of these sites may even be a Community Server site. Well, there isn't an excuse for this. As of SP1 for CS 2008 we've enabled "friendly display names" by default. Well, we've actually supported this for a LONG time and this post will show site admins how they can control this.
Open your Community Server control panel and navigate down to Membership Administration > Configuration > Account Settings > Profile Settings. Step by step arrows here:
In the screenshot above you see the master On/Off switch for this feature. Turning it on will enable the following option on a users profile settings page...
And for some inexplicable reason that we'll resolve in a future release the user also has the ability to turn his or her display name on or off as shown here:
Long live "Indians Fan 4 Ever!"
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Comments
Erik Porter on on 7.05.2008 at 3:17 AM
So this let's them change their name daily if they wanted to? So other users might not recognize them from day to day because they keep changing their name? If you're going to let them do that shouldn't there also be an option for all other users to say "I don't want to see anyone's display name" for consistency (for those who care)?
Joe on on 7.08.2008 at 10:57 AM
Yes, Indians Fan 4ever for sure. Go Tampa Bay!
David on on 7.09.2008 at 5:24 AM
This is one of those features I have never understood. You would not want people changing there names in a busy forum on a daily basis, and yes they will do that if you let them! Fair enough this feature can be turn off but I don't think it should be enabled by default.
As a long time user of CS, i'm finding it increasing frustrating in the amount of changes that, like this one, are been released with each version without any communication.
No communication of these changes is making it increasingly difficult to justify an upgrade from CS2007.1.
josh ledgard on on 7.09.2008 at 12:17 PM
I hear the feedback. Thanks guys. I can also tell you that I'm working on more forward looking communication for customers & partners. The next post is one example of more to come.
phuocle on on 7.15.2008 at 9:59 AM
I just know this feature. Thanks.