Hi Nicolaas,

   Thanks for your advises. I am going to try it right now.



Rebecca Juan Wang


On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Nicolaas Matthijs <
nicolaas.matth...@caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Rebecca,
>
> It just occurred to me that what you are trying to do is actually already
> possible with a little bit of configuration. You can add a "display name"
> or "preferred name" field to the basic profile, and then configure the
> "userNameDisplay" property in config.js to use this new field. The
> "defaultUserNameDisplay" property can then remain "firstName lastName" for
> those that haven't set a display name in their profile.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Nicolaas
>
>
>
> On 10 Sep 2012, at 20:25, Nicolaas Matthijs wrote:
>
> That isn't possible yet. I've added this to the JIRA ticket.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Nicolaas
>
>
>
> On 10 Sep 2012, at 20:23, Rebecca juanwang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Nicolaas, thank you for your help.
> "Is it possible to have two formats, one for English one for Chinese. I
> mean when a user chooses English as the language, his/her name is shown as
> [FirstName] + space + [LastName] and when Chinese is chosen as the
> language, her/her name is shown as [LastName] + space + [FirstName]?"
>
> Thanks a for the help.
> Rebecca
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Nicolaas Matthijs <
> nicolaas.matth...@caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rebecca,
>>
>> There is a system-wide setting that can be set in
>> /dev/configuration/config.js.
>>
>> */**
>> * * set how the user's name is displayed across the entire system*
>> * * - values can be compound, like 'firstName lastName' or singular like
>> 'displayName'*
>> * */*
>> *userNameDisplay: 'firstName lastName',*
>>
>> If you add the following line in config_custom.js:
>>
>> *config.Profile.userNameDisplay = 'lastName firstName';*
>>
>> you should at least be able to switch lastName and firstName around.
>> Unfortunately, not having a space doesn't seem to possible right now,
>> although it should be straightforward to add that in. It's also currently
>> not possible to only do this for a few people, it has to be done system
>> wide.
>>
>> I've created a JIRA ticket [1] to address both of these issues.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Nicolaas
>>
>> [1] https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAKIII-6199
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10 Sep 2012, at 03:21, Rebecca juanwang wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to know how to support localized person's name in Chinese which is
>> [LastName][FirstName] without space in between. The current OAE can support
>> Chinese names but in the English name format, i.e.,
>> [FirstName]+space+[LastName].
>>
>> Any help?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rebecca.
>>
>>
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