Hey Folks -

Just wanted to give a quick update on this. We'll be making some adjustments in the future for User Name Format to be respected in more places throughout the system and will likely being doing this iteratively in the coming months. Keep an eye out on our What's New posts, as we'll be calling out these enhancements there.

I did want to let folks know that Athletic Rosters do now respect User Name Format, so no longer do you need to enable that show preferred name option on an individual basis.

I have used the athletic widget for many years and always had the ability to indicate whether or not to use the nickname instead of the first name. However, with the recent update, it only displays first and last names. Many players and coaches do not want their first names displayed on public websites. They are known by their nicknames (or preferred names). We cannot change their first name to their nickname in Core because we need their legal first name to be listed. I don't understand why the new athletic module went backward in ability as I could always specify whose names to display nicknames. How can we get this ability back?

We are a Catholic school and some of our teachers as Brothers. But if we add their name to the system as:

Prefix: Brother
First Name: Name

They do not appear to students anywhere on their Blackbaud pages as: Brother Name

So we have had to put "Brother" as part of their first name as a workaround for this

The user name format should appear on any place the user's name is displayed in the system, not just on rosters

This is a major issue for users as we all can have students with the same name, sometimes in the same class. We need to be able to format how our usernames show throughout the system to avoid creating errors in student records.

this has been open for 5 years now - it has a good bit of requests and votes - please change this as the inconsistencies of what displays on our shool website is unacceptable . We have coaches that are also in administration and they are listed differently on the their team page. Please change.

This makes no sense to me.  Every other group (classes, advisory, community, activity) honors the UserName format we choose in Core>Users>User Profile Settings>User name formats.  Why not Athletics? This is inconsistent! Everyone sees nickname lastname in the directory for coaches, but not on rosters? Never mind the fact that the athletes themselves have their nicknames showing on the rosters, but not the coaches.  So on the same roster, we see first names for coaches, but nicknames for students.  Would LOVE to see this inconsistency fixed.  

Ok, so this has been opened for over 3 years any time frame on this? My coaches don't understand why in other areas: classes, advisories and activities; nicknames appear for teachers but not under athletics.

Would like to see this added to athletic rosters as well.  Currently the roster pulls the legal name.  Published rosters for programs and what we provide announcers need to have the preferred name and not the legal name.

We need and would like to request that we be able to show the students' real first names when the class roster is pulled up.  We are only seeing nick name and last name. We request that you allow us to format the name to include first name.  Seems that would be the default but it isn't.

If there can't be an option to display a teachers nickname on the class roster and students "My Day" view, perhaps the default could use the web based Security default user name format.  We have ours set to Nickname!Firstname and it does show that way when searching the faculty directory, it just isn't consistent across the platforms in all area where names are displayed.