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Confusion with the types of names in Community Builder

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8 years 6 months ago #279045 by entumas
Hi!

I'm setting my Community Builder and I have an important confusion with different names on it.
CB has 6 different fields for names. Some seem repetitive, confusing or are directly mistranslated. Could anyone help me to clarify this?
6 name fields are: username, FormatName, name, firstname, and lastname middlename

My questions are:
What it is and what is it the FormatName?
What is the difference between the name and the firstname?

Thanks to anyone who can help me :)

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8 years 6 months ago #279049 by nant

entumas wrote: Hi!

I'm setting my Community Builder and I have an important confusion with different names on it.
CB has 6 different fields for names. Some seem repetitive, confusing or are directly mistranslated. Could anyone help me to clarify this?
6 name fields are: username, FormatName, name, firstname, and lastname middlename

My questions are:
What it is and what is it the FormatName?
What is the difference between the name and the firstname?

Thanks to anyone who can help me :)


Let me try:

username is the code name a user selects: for example yours is entumas
firstname should be obvious: yours is En
lastname also should be obvious: yours is Tumas
name is the default full name used in joomla user manager: yours is En Tumas
formated name has different meanings based on your CB Configuration -> Gemeral tab -> Name format parameter.

Hope this helps.

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8 years 6 months ago #279052 by entumas
Thanks, I already understood
Indeed, the Spanish translation of "First Name" is wrong! Right is "Nombre" no "Apellido"
Transifex not let me modify this field

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8 years 6 months ago #279068 by nant

entumas wrote: Thanks, I already understood
Indeed, the Spanish translation of "First Name" is wrong! Right is "Nombre" no "Apellido"
Transifex not let me modify this field


I see no reason why transifex would not let you modify this is you are a translator in the project.

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