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Ability to have "Display Name" which is different from username. #1209
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This is especially helpful if you are utilizing a corporate LDAP/Active Directory which is setting your username to some obscure alphanumeric combination.
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Reacted by Alfred Bez, Mattias Fliesberg, Michael Kühnel, Pavel Vaněček, Mike Escalante, Rob Maas, Jonas Hagberg, Matti Andreas Kähäri, Niclas Jareborg, Amanda Folson and 59 more
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johnhug commentedon Oct 22, 2015
+1
pioneer903 commentedon Oct 22, 2015
+1 please
yonkeltron commentedon Oct 22, 2015
+1 👍
graywolf336 commentedon Oct 22, 2015
Would the display name only be for display or would there be any additional uses for it?
graywolf336 commentedon Oct 22, 2015
Right now when you register, not sure about ldap, you set your name. Thereafter there was no way to actually change your name and so it was kind of useless. I just opened a pull request, #1211, which adds a field to the account profile where you can change that.
I'm wondering if there should be an option per user or site wide which sets whether the username or the _(real)_name is used on the messages list.
Theaxiom commentedon Oct 23, 2015
@graywolf336 Thank you. :) I think you should be able to reference the display-name and it will auto-complete to the username when doing an @search in chat.
graywolf336 commentedon Oct 23, 2015
@Theaxiom I think it currently does search on the display-name (real name, name) when you go to mention someone.
Theaxiom commentedon Oct 23, 2015
@graywolf336 You are absolutely correct, I believe it should be possible to show display names in channel instead of usernames. How feasible is this?
graywolf336 commentedon Oct 23, 2015
@Theaxiom Great question, I have not looked into that. I don't imagine it being extremely difficult though.
engelgabriel commentedon Oct 25, 2015
This is a very tricky one, and we may have other old issue about the same feature.
The big thing here is: performance and scalability. Our data model is denormalized in favor of really high performance with low CPU and Memory usage. So we don't have the real names available on every message, as we have the username copied.
But we do understand that in small team, with less than 1k users, we could have a memory map for the real names, and that's what we will do. We will create an setting to turn that on, and recommend that large deployments keep that turn of.
richardwlu commentedon Nov 23, 2015
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LeCoupa commentedon Dec 1, 2015
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noregard commentedon Dec 11, 2015
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rajsardhara commentedon Feb 13, 2017
+1
MarIfla commentedon Feb 14, 2017
+1
danielluchetta commentedon Feb 20, 2017
+1
sychevsky commentedon Mar 27, 2017
+1
dmanchev commentedon May 19, 2017
Yes please, this is important to have!
rajsardhara commentedon May 19, 2017
@dmanchev This is closed already Follow this to enable:
Under message section : Set a user name to alias in message = "True"
banholzer commentedon Apr 19, 2018
this works in messages but does this also work in "roster" ?
fletc3her commentedon May 15, 2019
I'd really appreciate this. People choose bizarre usernames. It would be nice if we could tell who everybody was.