1146127 - (nicknames) Nick name, displayed next to Real Name

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: User Accounts, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Currently, many people use the Real Name field to include their nick name, so that it shows up in autocomplete searches. Convention is to add it in brackets after the real name, but the brackets used are all over the place: (), [], and <>.

Problem: This prevents uses in other places, where a shorter name for the user is needed (like bug 181235). It's also not machine-readable.

Make a field, especially for the nick name. It would be:
* Shown close to the Real Name
* Used in searches, including autocomplete

xref related bugs:
* bug 338393 - Split Real Name into First/Last Name
* bug 1146124 - status field
* bug 372417 - custom profile fields
* bug 243944 - user bio (different, because on separate page)

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

IMO, a separate field is not needed. And you cannot force users to use it anyway. This is just going to make our code even more complex to also look at the nick field.

Comment 2

[Tobias B. Besemer [:BesTo] (QA)]

OK, would fill nearly a same bug ...

I think there should be a unique nickname for users like in Mozillian, too.
(In Mozillian you can change it whenever you want.)

I have the following problem:
I want to link to my bmo-account on different places, but to link to my profile I have to use a URL that includes my Email. Not only that I don't like to give everyone may Email (what would change much more on bugzilla) - I just don't want to place my Email in public into the web.
That somebody can see it on bmo is a other story and maybe ATM OK ...
... but that every Bot find it and everybody that see the link also see my Email ... :-/

With a nick it should be possible to easily have a better URL.
If I would choose "BesTo" my URL to my profile can looks like:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?nick=BesTo

But for this there have to be first a nick field.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

This will be fixed by bug 218917.

Comment 4

[You can set nickname by putting [:nickname] in the field doesn't work? See Bug 1146127]

Correct whatever I try: Adding [:nickname] in the Your real name field 8 years later still doesn't work.
I cannot find out how it should work either. A search for: Bugzilla "[:nickname]" only leads me to this bug ;o)

Comment 5

[kiwi93872.ipoae]

(In reply to You can set nickname by putting [:nickname] in the field doesn't work? See Bug 1146127 from comment #4)

Correct whatever I try: Adding [:nickname] in the Your real name field 8 years later still doesn't work.
I cannot find out how it should work either. A search for: Bugzilla "[:nickname]" only leads me to this bug ;o)

Use "Simple search" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?format=specific).
Set "Status" to "All" and tick "Search comments", put "nickname" into "Words".
For "Bugzilla" product there are 10 bugs and for "bugzilla.mozilla.org" there are 29 bugs. Bug 1766121 contains some references to underlying code.

Comment 6

[agowa]

I tried multiple ways and it still doesn't appear to work.
I tried:

• [:agowa]: At first I thought the string nickname was to be replaced by my nick, so I did, but that shows up as [agowa] on the profile page.
• [:nickname]agowa: then I tried to use it as it as a kind of tag to prefix my nickname with, but that just literally shows up as [:nickname]agowa
• agowa: The only thing that really appears to work and make my nickname show up properly on the profile page after the User: is to enter just the nick name into the real name field.

Can we just get an additional GUI field for the nick name and have the backend take care of correctly format it for the profile page?
considering that this issue is now almost 10 years old it's probably time to consider adding a dedicated input field and change the view to include a placeholder for this new separate field...