Thanks for quick reply. I will take another look at the plugin views, but I 
am not sure that is where I need to change things. 

I'm calling the user_id hoping to get the displayField from outside of the 
plugin from a view from my main app. 



On Thursday, January 3, 2013 5:22:34 PM UTC-6, cricket wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, mk <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I'm using the CakeDC Users plugin and have it working, however when I 
> access 
> > it from a View in the main app, it is showing only the user id rather 
> than 
> > the displayfield = 
> > 'username'; 
> > 
> > Plugin User Model contains 
> >     public $displayField = 'username'; 
>
> Does your users table have a 'username' column? 
>
> > Main App View (add.ctp) Contains 
> >     echo $this->Form->input('user_id'); 
>
> That looks a little odd. I would expect that the id would be 
> auto-generated and that, minimally, there would be a username input. 
>
> I haven't used this plugin, btw. 
>
> ok, I've just looked at the schema for this. The user_id column is in 
> the user_details table. It's the foreign key pointing to the users 
> table. 
>
> Take a look at the views that come with the plugin. I think that 
> perhaps you've tried modifying things and taken a wrong turn 
> somewhere. 
>
> > View displays user_id rather than username. 
> > 
> > Any ideas on what needs to be done to get this to show displayfield 
> > correctly? I tried adding a recursive=2 to the add action for the 
> > correspoiding view but that did not work... 
>
> Changing recursive would have no effect. 
>

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