Ok, it's possible to avoid changing in User interface and use fullName field for it. However I think that it's not so clear from semantics perspective as fullName always means combination of firstName lastName when displayName, which will be editable by user, can be something completely different (like email address). But looks like we don't have much other choices if we want to avoid change of User interface...

However in GateIn UI, I would be for using label "Display Name" for this new field. Is it ok? And it would mean that class org.exoplatform.services.organization.impl.UserImpl will need to add new field: private String lastName = null;

with implementations like:

   public String getFullName()
   {
      return this.fullName != null ? this.fullName : getFirstName() + " " + getLastName();
   }

   public void setFullName(String fullName)
   {
        this.fullName = fullName;       
   }

Do you want me to create JIRA in EXOJCR for it?

I think that for GateIn 3.2 is late anyway because AFAIK release will be in next few days.

Thanks,
Marek

On 23.2.2012 10:54, Nicolas FILOTTO wrote:
Indeed you are right this field exists and should be used for this purpose. This way we have nothing to change in top level applications (apart the ability to modify it of course), we only need to implement these methods to store/retrieve it properly in/from the data store in the different implementation of the OrganizationService which is more acceptable/doable for GateIn 3.2/ JCR 1.14 if it is really needed to have it asap

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Julien Viet <julien@julienviet.com> wrote:
The computed property "fullName" is persistable and could be used for this display name.

When the value does not exist: use the current behavior "firstName lastName".
When a user saves a new value, it will be used instead of the default computed value.

There is already the setFullName(String) method on the User interface that is empty in all implementations.


On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Nicolas FILOTTO wrote:

Hi,

How many customers are we talking about? I'm not against doing that for next versions but it is clearly too late for GateIn 3.2/JCR 1.14, it is not acceptable to modify interfaces in branches that are very close to be in maintenance mode. Moreover we would have 3 implementations of the Organization Service to review in very limited time only on eXo side, on your side you have IDM too.

BR,
Nicolas

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Marek Posolda <mposolda@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,

We have customers who would like to have editable "displayName" of user.
Currently what's displayed in right top corner after login of user is
his fullName, which is hardcoded as 'firstName lastName' . So we have
suggestions to add new non-mandatory field displayName, which can be
something similar like in Thunderbird
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Using_the_Address_Book#Contact_Tab
. So user can fill displayName during his registration and it will be
displayed in right top corner in UIUserInfoPortlet. If user won't have
displayName, it will fallback to old behaviour and it will show fullName
instead of it.

What do you think about it? I already created JIRA
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-2358 with attached patches.
First patch is for required changes in
exo.core.component.organization.api . It's about adding 2 new methods
"getDisplayName" and "setDisplayName" to interface User and change
UserImpl implementation and other things according to it. Should I
create JIRA into EXOJCR project for it?
Second patch is for GateIn where needed changes are:
- Adding new field into all portlets for creating and updating of user
- Changing logic in UIUserInfoPortlet to use displayName with fallback
to fullName

Any objections?

Thanks,
Marek
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