Author Topic: "nick name" as part of "display name"? (Read 701 times)

narragansett · February 04, 2011, 04:16:25 pm

I'd like to be able to use the "nick name" field in place of "first name" any time an individual's name is displayed. Is this possible, and if so, how?

I found this thread that seemed to touch on this topic: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,15874.0.html, but nothing happens when I follow the advice given there.

That advice was to change the settings here -> (CiviCRM > Administer > Global Settings > Site Preferences ... Individual Display Name Format). I replaced "contact.first_name" with "contact.nick_name" & clicked <save>, but nothing happened.

Did I miss something? Is this the wrong place to accomplish what I want?

Thanks for any help provided.

Jason W · October 03, 2012, 09:45:41 am

Hello narragansett,

Try going to Administer-->Customixe Data and Screens-->Display preferences. Scroll down to Individual Display Name Format and replace {contact.first_name} with {contact.nick_name}.

Note that if you want to include the nickname in place of the first name when sorting your contacts, this is done on the same page. next to Individual Sort Name Format just replace {contact.first_name} with {contact.nick_name}.

Cheers!
Jason

rocxa · January 30, 2015, 06:10:00 am

Can conditional logic be added to this do that display name uses

if(nickname) {
use nickname
} else {
use first name
}

jaapjansma · January 30, 2015, 07:52:19 am

No I don't think that is possible. Or at least not that I am aware of it. If it is possible that would be very nice. However in 4.5 there is a hook to customize display names . So if you are a developer you could write an extension for this.

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