I have managed to override the username in my template.php file, which works for most of my site.
Unfortunately however, the privatemsg module includes a vast amount of code that links to a person's username. Is there any modules or patches that have been made to allow the privatemsg module to display real name throughout instead of the username? or could you recommend a way for me to best override the constant occurence of the username?
regards,
Sylvie

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asak’s picture

asak commented

Sylvie - have you found a way to do that?

I would like privatemsg to use custom CCK fields from nodeprofile content type instead of the username.

Anyone know how to get this done?

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liliplanet commented

subscribe .. that would be fabulous if full name instead of username is implemented in 'reply to', etc.

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asak commented

@Liliplanet: I think so too... but actually i'm thinking of going to opposite way. I'm guessing you'd like this feature for a more beautiful/intuitive UI, which is something i haven't even thought about. I'm just looking for a way to disable the usage of 'Username' all together, and for that it seems some sort of patching to the alternative login module would be required.

But yea - If privatemsg could allow messaging using custom CCK nodeprofile fields that would be awsome! ;)

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litwol commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

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