Rocket.chat: Support showing full name

Created on 21 Jul 2015 · 18Comments · Source: RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

Currently, username is as primary key and could not change. It also used in room and subscription and other data structures. Do we have plan to support this? For example show the nickname in room. And user also could change nickname.

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haosdent

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you (or chat admin) should choose what to show, either username or name/nickname.

so yes, we do have plans to support this configuration. =)

sampaiodiego on 21 Jul 2015

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you (or chat admin) should choose what to show, either username or name/nickname.

so yes, we do have plans to support this configuration. =)

sampaiodiego on 21 Jul 2015

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thank you

haosdent on 21 Jul 2015

:+1: I would love to see that

onigoetz on 14 Jan 2016

:+1:

leeychee on 1 Mar 2016

:+1:

AlexTr on 9 Mar 2016

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you (or chat admin) should choose what to show, either username or name/nickname.

so yes, we do have plans to support this configuration. =)

👍I really need this.

Laisky on 10 Apr 2016

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maybe a compromise along these lines
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IMHO: A decent way would be to have an extensive customization panel in the admin section and a simple user customization tab, where the individual user can change some things.
As discussed https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/1377

ma-karai on 11 Apr 2016

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chey on 3 Jun 2016

Seems that PR #3337 solves this issue.
Not sure if it will map based on attributes from SSO backends like LDAP.

LFCavalcanti on 9 Jun 2016

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Will be very useful because it's one of the things that are missing on rocketchat respect slack.

Mte90 on 14 Dec 2016

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danpospisil on 13 Feb 2017

rajsardhara on 13 Feb 2017

can it also show the full name in the user list?

amenk on 25 Feb 2017

trying to make a PR ...

amenk on 25 Feb 2017

Does #3851 Solve this? I know 3851 should be effecting not only channel list, but searches, mentions and direct messages list.

Maybe i'm missing something?

jdashn on 27 Feb 2017

Yes, #3851 might solve this - saw it too late ... maybe #3851 can be merged soon?

amenk on 28 Feb 2017

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I would also appreciate this feature. In my company we have cases where the name of a user changed by marriage but it is too much work to change the sAMAccountName. So they are displayed with their old names in rocket.