In the normal user directory on my site at /u/ it shows username in bold, followed by full name. In the admin’s user list at /admin/users/list/active only the username is shown. Is it possible to change this? Thanks.

Thanks but the real names are different (which is why I’d like to be able to see them at a glance on the admin list). I enabled that full name setting, as far as I remember.

Any ideas here? Thank you in advance.

Is it possible to have the real name in the admin-side user list? Thanks.

I think it can be possible. Just need you to create a plugin implement some functions that add the real name field to the serialization data, and one new column for real name on the web view. Edit: I found the real name field are already exist in the responsed json data, so you might have no necessary to create a plugin and operate the servers logic, just a theme component/widget to render it on client side only.

We’d like to have this too - display Name as a column and include it in the search. This has been asked for before: [image] User search: No name, no custom fields? Support I’m curious if I’m missing something: Does the user search in admin really only search usernames and email addresses? We’re using discourse for a closed groups where people use their real names on the name field and we need to search them regularly to remove users that are not longer part of the group. We also added a custom field that’s only visible to admin where they enter a number for clear identification. That also doesn’t seem to be searchable. Is there anything I am missing or is it just… It looks a little more complicated to arrange than a little CSS fiddle. Can anyone help with how this would be approached? Or perhaps provide the SQL used to build the page so it can be replicated (and modified) in Data Explorer?

You can take a look: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/admin/addon/controllers/admin-users-list-show.js https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/admin/addon/models/admin-user.js Edit: I just found this commit, it may support search by Name in the near future by Discourse. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e29605b79f25afac2d506c6371e1b528f120b670

Show full name in admin's user list

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 23, 2020, 11:07am 2

Does the admin username match their real name? In they case discourse does not display them both since they are the same. There is a setting to have your displayed anyway.

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Show full name in admin's user list

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