https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-display-name-from-compound-custom-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Custom Display name from compound custom field en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:27:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-display-name-from-compound-custom-field#post-208889 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:57:50 +0000 Chris Hajer 208889@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you. I'll leave it open in case you're inclined to update this topic in the future with your solution. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-display-name-from-compound-custom-field#post-204687 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:12:39 +0000 mwendlandt 204687@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Perhaps....</p> <p>I suppose I could add a hidden form filed called 'first name', that's populated dynamically via js to assemble a display name from the individual components... but then I lose the first name... or rather, first name wouldn't be first name any more. </p> <p>I'm going to have to play with this, someday when I don't have a crazy deadline looming. At this point, the issue is too trivial for me to waste time on getting hacky with it.</p> <p>If I find something useful, I'll report back... meanwhile, feel free to close this.</p> <p>Thanks for the help!</p> <p>-m </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-display-name-from-compound-custom-field#post-203478 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:08:05 +0000 Chris Hajer 203478@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The User Registration add-on has the options for display name <strong>hard-coded</strong> to only be choices of:</p> <blockquote><p> 'username' =&gt; '{username}',<br /> 'firstname' =&gt; '{first name}',<br /> 'lastname' =&gt; '{last name}',<br /> 'firstlast' =&gt; '{first name} {last name}',<br /> 'lastfirst' =&gt; '{last name} {first name}' </p></blockquote> <p>to match what WordPress does. </p> <p>You will need to have your compound field show up in the drop down for first name or last name. The display name drop down options refer to the other fields on the page, not form fields. So they could put their compound field (full name) into the first name field and then set display name to {first name}, like my screen shot here: <a href="http://grab.by/luxS" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/luxS</a> .</p> <p>Does that information help? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-display-name-from-compound-custom-field#post-201651 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:37:01 +0000 Chris Hajer 201651@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'll send this one to the development team for you as well. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-display-name-from-compound-custom-field#post-201451 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:21:34 +0000 mwendlandt 201451@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Now that I have a custom compound Name field working ( see <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/compound-custom-field-not-being-saved" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/compound-custom-field-not-being-saved</a> ), I need to be able to use this information to create a custom option in the Display Name drop down on the Feed Settings page. I've looked at the gform_merge_tags filter, but that seems to apply only to the Form Editor.</p> <p>I can't see any hooks that would let me modify $display_names in userregistration.php, and furthermore I'm not sure how I would go about having it pull the necessary info from my compound full name field.</p> <p>Once I get this part sorted, I'm thinking of putting together a little tutorial if there's interest.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>-malte </p>