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Disabling Full Name Changes

The discussion revolves around disabling users from changing their full names after sign-up, while allowing admins to edit the field. thekoalaz wants to enforce a Real Name policy on their Discourse instance.

Falco suggested hiding the edit section for full names by modifying the preferences template, similar to how they handled avatars. thekoalaz found this solution helpful and is considering implementing it.

robmc has a similar requirement for a Membership site, where they want to link Real Names to usernames and prevent users from changing them. fefrei suggested using the sso overrides name setting to solve this problem.

The conversation also touches on modifying templates to achieve this goal. Falco clarified that modifying templates requires overwriting the existing code, and weallwegot provided a link to the relevant codebase. Mark_Schmucker is still searching for the template that defines the user’s preference page to remove the full name edit section.

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Hi,

I have just begun operating a small discourse for real life friends and I wanted to enforce a Real Name policy.

I’ve required full name on sign up and an approval only policy, but after sign up users can edit their Full Name. I want to disable this so that an approved user’s full name is essentially locked after sign-up, but an admin can still edit the field.

I was looking at where this check happens and it seems there’s no logic that will let me enforce this policy exactly:

Username and e-mail have settings that relate to whether a user can self-edit them, but there are no such settings for full names. Is this true? Is there some work around?

Thanks!

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I have an instance where avatars are handled elsewhere and I changed the preferences template to hide the avatars change section. You can do the same.

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I see. That seems like a clean solution.

Was the separate avatar handling page a custom page you’ve added?

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Yes, I changed the preferences template, so the little pencil from avatar on preferences page is a link that send people to the avatar change page in another system. Our avatars were handled outside Discourse and integrated with the setting default avatars.

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Thanks I think that gives me an idea of how I might proceed.

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Interesting. I have a similar requirement for a Membership site.

In my case we will carry over Real Names from a separate site with registration using SSO. We will allow users to adopt usernames for taking part in the Discourse conversation, but we want them to always be linked to a Real Name on their profile, and so do not want them to be able to change it once it has been populated during registration.

Is this possible?

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Since you’re using SSO, checking sso overrides name should solve your problem :slight_smile:

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thanks! I’m not yet using … but it is the plan I am putting together and so have not discovered that yet. Much obliged

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Ho cercato per 20 minuti ma non riesco a trovare il modello delle preferenze. Ho trovato delle sue parti, ma non il modello completo. Qualcuno può indicarmelo?

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Penso che il template faccia riferimento a questa parte del codice

Questa porzione specifica l’azione che viene eseguita quando qualcuno clicca sulla grande matita per modificare l’avatar.

& ecco l’azione associata a showAvatarSelector che potrebbe essere sostituita se volessi personalizzarla.

Spero che questo aiuti!

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Grazie, ma credo che @Falco si stesse riferendo ad Amministratori > Personalizza > Testo. Ad esempio, riesco a trovare questa porzione:

js.user.change_avatar.title

e mi aspettavo che esistesse anche un template di livello superiore che definisca l’intera pagina delle preferenze dell’utente e contenga tale porzione. Rimuovendo la sezione relativa all’avatar da quel template, si potrebbe impedire agli utenti di modificare il proprio avatar. (O il proprio nome completo, che è ciò che voglio fare.)

Ma non riesco ancora a trovare il template che definisce la pagina delle preferenze degli utenti.

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No, intendevo esattamente quanto riferito da @weallwegot. Puoi imparare come sovrascrivere i template leggendo la Guida per sviluppatori ai temi Discourse