[SOLVED] Append CB Fields to Formatted Name

Currently the FormatName is made up of a combination of "Fist Name", "Middle Name" and 'Last Name".

Is there a way to have the FormatName include (have appended to it) other CB custom fields?

Assuming I want the person full name, followed by the Company Name (which is a custom CB Field). How do I do this?

Reason being, some third party components can not search or use custom CB fields, and only use the format name for their functions. So I either have to hack their component and force it to use CB fields, which i'd rather not do, or reformat the FormatName.

With CB 2.0 this is easily done with the new layouts feature. With CB 1.x you'll need to use a delimiter field and substitute in both your field and the formatname field. Example as follows.

[cb_prefix][fortmatname][cb_suffix]

I'm not sure how adjust the field output is going to matter for your 3rd party extensions if they're not using CB fields though. The only way for what you're wanting to work is to modify the name column in _users and store the prefix with the name.

You are right. This won't help, since the third party component can't expect CB substitutions. I'm looking at a different alternative.