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Username showing up instead of Display name

Last post 09-23-2007, 12:56 PM by owize1. 4 replies.


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09-21-2007, 11:57 AM 33724

Cloey
Joined on 09-21-2007
Posts 8

Username showing up instead of Display name

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We just replaced an older chat program. I was wondering if I can have the program point to the display name, it is pointing to the user name and some users aren't too happy about that.

This is on a PNNDNN 4.x site

09-21-2007, 3:07 PM 33732 in reply to 33724

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: Username showing up instead of Display name

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Clory,

Open Global.asax.cutechat.vb and find the following code:

Return theuser.UserID.ToString()

You can change it to:

Return theuser.DisplayName.ToString()

or:

Return theuser.FirstName.ToString()

or:

Return theuser.FullName.ToString()

or:

Return theuser.Username.ToString()

Hope it helps.

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09-22-2007, 1:35 PM 33744 in reply to 33732

owize1
Joined on 09-22-2007
Posts 9

Re: Username showing up instead of Display name

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This fix does not work with dnn 4.05.05. I changed "Return theuser.UserID.ToString()" to "Return theuser.DisplayName.ToString()" and got the Error "Input string was not in a correct. format.".

It would seem that the DispName property has a problem?

Reguardless, I have users that want to use a different Display Name than their UserID and expect to keep their user name out of the chat window. Please let me know if there are additional changes required.

09-22-2007, 3:34 PM 33748 in reply to 33744

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: Username showing up instead of Display name

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Maybe the DisplayName is null. Try the following code instead:

Try
Return theuser.DisplayName.ToString()
Catch e As Exception
Return theuser.FirstName.ToString()
End Try

09-23-2007, 12:56 PM 33765 in reply to 33748

owize1
Joined on 09-22-2007
Posts 9

Re: Username showing up instead of Display name

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I put this into the global file

      Try
          Return theuser.DisplayName.ToString()
      Catch e As Exception
          Return theuser.UserID.ToString()
      End Try

Also turned on debug mode in CH_MainForm.aspx

I got the follwing error:

Input string was not in a correct format.

Line 16: LocationId=Request.QueryString["LocationId"];
Line 17: Location=Request.QueryString["Location"];
Line 18: SkinName="Skins/"+ CuteSoft.Chat.ChatWebUtility.SkinName + "/style.css";
Line 19: if(ChatWebUtility.IsDownLevelBrowser)
Line 20: {