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    • "Changing username" or "Displaying real names"

    Posted by Josephine Tan posts: 84 Singapore

    Hi!

    Can the user change username OR display real name?

    I have a little problem. Using TikiWiki for a school exercise. Registered a class of 16 students with their student numbers as usernames. Now, the students get online and see numbers instead of names. What can I do here, other than re-register all these students with their names as usernames?

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    Posted by Xavi (as xavidp - admin) posts: 957

    Don't know howto do it keeping the same internal records of that students.
    But through users.csv file (it's worth a lot registering them trhough csv file for registering the first time and or re-assigning them to work groups later on, etc., from my own expeience in the class)

    Instead of numbers, if you get their names and surnames, for instance, you can play a bit with basic Spreadsheet functions (for instance, OpenOffice Calc) to "concatenate" Name and Surname (i.e.: users as NameSurname ).

    I did first with Name.Surname (dot in the midle), but with 1.8.x I had problems later on to have Tiki recognize UserPageName.Surname as a WikiWord (no trouble at all with any version if using UserPageNameSurname )

    If you need help with concatenate funtion or others at the spreadsheet, ask here (or at edu.tw.o! 😉)
    (you'll be wellcome there, and I'd love to read your experience using tiki in educational scenarios)

    xavi



    Posted by Hans Saelens posts: 8 Belgium

    I had a similar problem. I changed templates/modules/mod-who_is_there.tpl to display $online_users[ix].realName instead of $online_users[ix].user.

    For this to work, I also changed the get_online_users() function in lib/tikilib.php to include the following:

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    while ($res = $result->fetchRow()) {
	$res['user_information'] = $this->get_user_preference($res['user'], 'user_information', 'public');
         $res['realName'] = $this->get_user_preference($res['user'],"realName", $res['user']);
	$ret[] = $res;
}

    Posted by Josephine Tan posts: 84 Singapore

    Thanks, all, for your suggested solutions. 😀

    Let me check them out.