Hi all,
I have a bit of a problem that you might be able to help me with. I am using the content profile for users to create a profile and expose most of the fields created with it on the user registration form. I am running into a problem with the administration of users as I have multiple names for a single person. I have the username that the user logs in with, a legal name, that is only seen by the logged in user and any administrators, and an artist name that is used on the publicly viewable profile page. My problem is that when an administrator want s to either moderate, block or delete a user, he has to visit the profile, get the artists username, head to the user administration and search for the username there.
I would like to set the artist name and the username to be the same. But then I must make it clear for a new user that signs up that he/she is not to enter a username (i.e. Oilycanvas342) but his/her 'artist name' (Magic McGee). Since username nor an explanation in the user registration guidelines would highlight this enough I thought of changing the user registration form.
That is not quite so simple. Does anyone know how to do this and if so could you either help me out by pointing me to some resources or examples?
Do you have another solution in mind that might be easier to implement and makes more sense?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastian
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Easier way
This seems unduly complicated and most certainly will confuse new visitors.
What I would suggest is providing a link on every post to "Edit User." I would make this link available only to admins. The link would point to user/###/edit where ### is the userID number of the person that created the comment.
This would be insanely easy to do if the nodes were produced with Views. But if they aren't, I am not sure how to do this.