Make both themed and unthemed username available to views? [#1130350]

I scoured the issue queue for a dup, but is this possible? The use case is this: I have a view that I want to display the themed realname and link it, not to the user's page, but to their blog page. This requires me to use the views "rewrite this field" option to do something like <a href="blogs/[(user)name]">[(real)name]</a>, where my alias to blog pages (core is blog/5) is to blogs/joesmith. So I want it to show the realname Joe Smith and the link be to the aliased path, which uses the core username. Can this be done with existing views integration or is this custom at this point? I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to do manually, just not sure how to go about it. Thanks.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#7	realname-views-both-1130350-7.patch	505 bytes	derhasi
#7
#5	realname-views-both-1130350-5.patch	645 bytes	derhasi
#5

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Comment #1

NancyDru

she/her/hers

English

Boston

CreditAttribution: NancyDru commented 18 April 2011 at 13:15

At my last gig, we used Pathauto to to make "blogs/uid" point to "blogs/realname" and then "blogs/uid" always showed up with the name.

Comment #2

scotwith1t

Birmingham, AL

CreditAttribution: scotwith1t commented 18 April 2011 at 22:32

hmmm...blogs are aliased like blogs/joesmith, but if i rewrite the views field to blog/5 it still takes me to blog/5 and not to the aliased path...note the 's' in the aliased path and no 's' in the core path...

Comment #3

NancyDru

she/her/hers

English

Boston

CreditAttribution: NancyDru commented 18 April 2011 at 23:07

Then it must have been Global Redirect that changed it for us.

Comment #4

scotwith1t

Birmingham, AL

CreditAttribution: scotwith1t commented 2 May 2011 at 20:22

This is still a real thorn in my side, sorry. Would it be a huge change to make both available as views fields and do away with the checkbox in a new release or at least in dev? I wish I was strong enough in php to try this myself, but I'm just not. I now have at least 3 different ways I need this on a current site. The latest is a userreference field that's on a node type 'event', instead of showing that username I want to show their realname, but I need the unthemed username to rewrite a field to link directly to their contact page instead of their user page. If the unthemed name was available as well as realname themed, I could rewrite using <a href="/users/[unthemed]/contact">[themed]</a>. Does that make sense? As it is now, I get either <a href="/users/joesmith/contact">joesmith</a> when i uncheck the setting to override the username in views. the link works, but this displays the unthemed name. if i do <a href="/users/JOE SMITH/contact">JOE SMITH</a> the display is correct, but the link doesn't work...see what I mean? I can probably use global redirect as you suggested, but i think this would be a very useful feature to many.

Comment #5

derhasi CreditAttribution: derhasi commented 10 May 2011 at 13:54

Status:	Active	» Needs review
Issue tags:		+views, +join

File	Size
realname-views-both-1130350-5.patch	645 bytes

You have to switch off Overwrite user fields in view to show realnames on admin/user/realname and apply the patch below, as this makes the realname available for a node's author.