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SID-01539: Initials instead of Wikinames

Status: Answered Answered TWiki version: 5.1.1 Perl version:
Category: CategoryRegistration Server OS: Centos Last update: 11 years ago

For 30 years our company has been using our initials for us to ID each other on official company documents, logs, etc. Can TWIKI support this? Can the registration for a local site be adapted to let Bob Johnson use BJ as his wikiname for login?

I've not looked everywhere yet for the answer to this, and will continue to poke around the docs. But nothing, so far, has jumped out at me.

-- TWikiGuest - 2012-09-20

Discussion and Answer

TWiki requires WikiWords for user profile page names, e.g. when registering.

You could modify the user form and add an "Initial" field. With this you can create user reports that show the initial instead of the WikiName.

You could also create a topic in the Main web for each initial, e.g. create a BJ page for BobJohnson. That page could link to BobJohnson's page or link to it. Now you can create a new InterwikiPlugin rule for "Initial". That way, when someone writes Initial:JB it will link to JB's initial page.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-09-23

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