Changing NickName to FirstName and LastName

Hi, is there anyway to change NickName to First and Last Name on everything?

This is because i do not want usernames showing when a member receives a message etc?

Thanks so much in advance!

You can go to the admin section and set whether to use the NickName field, or First Name, or First Name + Last Name or Last Name + First Name.  This is under the advance settings, under Profiles, "Member display-name"

Its set to First Name + Last Name?? But everything on the site is still showing as Username

Clear the caches in the admin, several times as sometimes a single clear is not enough.  Also, you might need to clear the /cache and the /cache_public directories on your site making sure to leave the .htacess files in place.

i have completed this, even when you send a message it still says recipient (member username)? 

Evidently Boonex has that hard coded into the email thingy.  That means we need to look through the code.  This could be considered a bug :-).  Being able to use First Name + Last Name is new, introduced with 7.1.  I guess they did not fully integrate it into all areas of the site that uses User Name.  Most internal stuff is done using the ID of the member.

What other areas are you seeing that is still using the User Name?

Based on the 3'rd post down, he stated everything on the site which i interpreted to mean everywhere.

Then that would mean it is not working at all.

On, user notifications of new message etc...

even on profile url's such as yoursite.com/user111

Does users profile even have there first and last name given??

That would be normal. Full names can contain spaces, and spaces are not valid characters when used in a URL unless it is encoded to %20

There are other characters that also are invalid for URL's.  So for now dolphin does not support the full name in the url. They may change it in future versions but not likley to happen any time soon.

According to the 7.1.3 release notes there is now an option to remove the nickname from the joining form: http://www.boonex.com/n/stability-security-spam-prevention-and-more

Does this solve this problem? Does this mean you can now operate a site without letting users use nick names at all? I.e. just use their full name for everything? (This is what I'm looking to do, kind of like Facebook does).

I think Boonex need to consider making these changes (take username off sites altogether?)