When users sign up on the forum using OpenID, their email and username get automatically filled and validated. If the chosen username is taken, Discourse adds a number to make it unique. The username is chosen based on the user name. The issue is that we want the username to be only the user’s first name, not the full name. I’ve been trying to change the username during registration, but I haven’t found a successful way yet. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated. [Screenshot from 2024-03-02 13-17-21]

You can also try this component; this should do what you want in your context. It hides the username field and generates its value based on the name field, extracting only the first name. It expects the following settings enabled: full_name_required prioritize_username_in_ux https://github.com/Arkshine/discourse-display-first-name-only

you posted this already I think [image] How to display user first name as username Support I prefer the username to consist of the user’s first name rather than their full name. Upon the user’s initial login, I would like the system to automatically set the username using only the first name. E.G Full name: Maria Jose → username: Maria So instead of the username be Maria_Jose, and want it to be Maria How I can accomplish that?

If you control the openID server then you should be able to have it send whatever you want to Discourse. This might help: [image] How to configure the OIDC to set the Username as the email account name or a username like value returned from my auth providers? Support The Discourse OIDC plugin will use the ‘nickname’ claim provided by the identity provider. So you’ll need to review the documentation for your identity provider and work out how to make it send the ‘nickname’ value that you’d like. Looks like you can populate preferred_nickname with the username you think you want. What are you sending in that field? If it’s empty or their full name, that would be a good first thing to change. lib/omniauth_open_id_connect.rb 3af9b35c5 uid { id_token_info["sub"] } info do data_source = options.use_userinfo ? userinfo_response : id_token_info prune!( name: data_source["name"], email: data_source["email"], first_name: data_source["given_name"], last_name: data_source["family_name"], nickname: data_source["preferred_username"], image: data_source["picture"], ) end extra do hash = {} hash[:raw_info] = options.use_userinfo ? userinfo_response : id_token_info hash[:id_token] = access_token["id_token"] prune! hash end

Restrict username to user first name

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Celso_Teixeira (Celso) March 2, 2024, 3:52pm 3

Now it is more clear what I want to achieve, and the problems I’m facing

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