This is something I've added to my personal instance. But I think it would be nice to have in the main project. At the moment I just have an extra colum in my DB that I edit from my IDE. But from the front, it looks something like this:
If whoever works on this (assuming its not me) wants my code to use as a foundation, I have a migration for the DB, some extra methods in Contact.php, and the change to _header.blade.php (which is visible in the above picture). What I don't have is any sort of form for adding/editing the information, or any code in the Controller to save it.
tbirrell
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That's a very good idea. Feel free to submit a PR about it and I'll gladly merge it.
djaiss
on 12 Dec 2018
Does it make sense to generalize this some? People change names for several reasons, sometimes first name as well. I've been using the description field to capture this now, but it's free-form (e.g. "birth name was XXX").
This may be too specific to my contacts but I could see a use for tracking name changes and then allowing searches even on old names.
mccollam
on 13 Dec 2018
@mccollam That would probably require a significant redesign of monica.contacts. Possibly even moving names completely out to a pivot table. This would be enough of a change to justify its own feature request ticket, I think.
tbirrell
on 14 Dec 2018
I disagree with the term "maiden name" which is associated only to women, and thus could be taken as a sexist term. I prefer something ile "birth name".
asbiin
on 18 Dec 2018
Actually "birth name" would capture a lot of my cases as well (someone changes their name, changes gender, etc.)
mccollam
on 18 Dec 2018
I disagree with the term "maiden name" which is associated only to women, and thus could be taken as a sexist term. I prefer something ile "birth name".
It's a legal term though. So should not be a problem. It is also very specifically for recording pre-marriage names, as you can see from how I display it on the frontend.
If we want to put this on hold until we can come up with a more comprehensive solution for alternative names, I'm cool with that.
tbirrell
on 18 Dec 2018
I think birth name would be more generic and cover more cases.
djaiss
on 24 Dec 2018
"Former name" would cover more use cases than "birth name". As an edge case, consider a case where a person has a legal name change, twice.
trwnh
on 25 Dec 2018
Was searching for where to input maiden names, didn't think it wouldn't be there :(
I put the info in the description of the contact for the time being.
Alwaysin
on 12 Jul 2020
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"Former name" would cover more use cases than "birth name". As an edge case, consider a case where a person has a legal name change, twice.