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Custom Display name from compound custom field

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  1. mwendlandt
    Member

    Now that I have a custom compound Name field working ( see http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/compound-custom-field-not-being-saved ), 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.

    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.

    Once I get this part sorted, I'm thinking of putting together a little tutorial if there's interest.

    Thanks!

    -malte

    Posted 11 years ago on Monday April 8, 2013 | Permalink

  2. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    I'll send this one to the development team for you as well.

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday April 9, 2013 | Permalink

  3. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    The User Registration add-on has the options for display name hard-coded to only be choices of:

    'username' => '{username}',
    'firstname' => '{first name}',
    'lastname' => '{last name}',
    'firstlast' => '{first name} {last name}',
    'lastfirst' => '{last name} {first name}'

    to match what WordPress does.

    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: http://grab.by/luxS .

    Does that information help?

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday April 10, 2013 | Permalink

  4. mwendlandt
    Member

    Perhaps....

    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.

    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.

    If I find something useful, I'll report back... meanwhile, feel free to close this.

    Thanks for the help!

    -m

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday April 11, 2013 | Permalink

  5. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Thank you. I'll leave it open in case you're inclined to update this topic in the future with your solution.

    Posted 11 years ago on Sunday April 14, 2013 | Permalink