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Dearest CiviFolk,

Can I request that Profiles be modified to have both a name and a title?

I want to use names that are useful for our staff, but as this also appears on visitor-facing screens as a legend in the HTML fieldset, I don't have the flexibility I desire. (For instance, I might want to call profiles "Donor..." or "Event..." or "Search..." depending on their purpose, but I don't want that on the visitor-facing screen.)

I might even have a go at this myself. (But I'm not a PHP programmer so that might not be pretty.) I understand the work would include...

• add a name column to the civicrm_uf_group table
• the upgrade script would set the name to the same value as the title column
• change the BAO and DAO to include the new field (duplicating the logic for the title field)
• change the PHP and TPL for the relevant forms and pages to include the new field (duplicating the logic for the title field)
• change the PHP and TPL for the form and page to include the new field (duplicating the logic for the title field)
• the most visible change would be placing the name in dropdowns and retaining the title in the visitor-facing HTML

Thoughts?
Ken