[Zope-dev] Suggestion: Full name attribute for user objects

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Staubo [mailto:alex@mop.no]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 9:58 PM
> To: zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Suggestion: Full name attribute for user objects
> 
> 
> It would be very cool if user objects (that is to say User.BasicUser)
> could have a "fullname"-type attribute. This would also fit 
> well in with
> other authentication schemes such as Windows NT, where users 
> have a full
> name in addition to a login name.
> 
> While I know I can name my users "John Doe" instead of "john" or
> "johnd", that's a pain for my users to enter in the login box -- think
> about those who have long names or middle initials. On the other hand,
> things like "john" isn't descriptive enough when we need a 
> display name;
> for example, consider a simple document management system, where you
> define system users in an acl_user folder and tie the user name to
> documents' "owner" and "author" properties. In such cases 
> display names
> would be very handy. Sure, I can create a TinyTable for looking up
> display names, but this isn't half as elegant or flexible.
> 
> I don't think the addition of such an attribute would break any code,
> either.
> 
> If nobody minds this little addition, I can probably devise a patch
> myself.
> 

Thanks for the entusiasm, but there's no need.  The membeship system
will allow you to assign arbitrary properties to member objects.  Of
course, you can hard code in Full Name if you don't want to wait.

-Michel

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