07 August 2009, 13:31

Once users have logged into the site, their name is displayed in a variety of ways in the login/logout block.

• John Smith (jsmith)
• John Smith (John Smith - jsmith)
• John (John Smith - jsmith)

I would expect to see the first option only so I am not sure why I am also getting the other two. I have not been able to detect a pattern to this issue.

Mahara 1.1.5, PHP 5.2.8, MySQL 5.0.81

 Thanks

09 August 2009, 19:25

Hi,

The way your name is displayed depends on who is looking at it.

In most places, if you're looking at your own name, you'll likely just see your preferred name, unless you haven't set that (in which case I think you get Firstname Lastname).

If admins are looking at you, they'll see John Smith (jsmith). If John has a preferred name set, they'll see John (John Smith - jsmith).

Staff can also see "full" names I think. Institutional admins can see full names for users they're an admin for.

Does this help clear up the behaviour? Or are you seeing inconsistent behaviour in some places that you think might be better tidied up? We're certainly open to ideas