[SOLVED] Name format changing

Hi Kyle,
Thank you for your patience!
What I did eventually:
Created an autoaction action after registration, which inserts the formatted name to the USERNAME field of the #_USERS table.
This displays the formatted name both in the canvas and the login module.

dtws2008 wrote: Hi Kyle,
Thank you for your patience!
What I did eventually:
Created an autoaction action after registration, which inserts the formatted name to the USERNAME field of the #_USERS table.
This displays the formatted name both in the canvas and the login module.

Kyle is on his well deserved vacation.

What you did seems wrong to me as it will alter the way people login to your website.

Basically you have wiped out their username.

On purpose, the login to the site is by email not uid.

dtws2008 wrote: On purpose, the login to the site is by email not uid.

ok, but Joomla requires unique usernames and I doubt if your action accounts for this.

Not sure how Joomla will react if usernames are not unique in database.

Thank you for that!!
I will suffix a unique string to the username field.