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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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Я искал 20 минут, но не могу найти шаблон настроек. Нашёл лишь фрагменты, но не сам шаблон. Не могли бы вы подсказать, где его найти?

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Думаю, шаблон ссылается на эту часть кодовой базы

Этот фрагмент определяет действие, которое выполняется при нажатии на большую иконку карандаша для редактирования аватара.

А вот действие, связанное с showAvatarSelector, которое можно заменить, если вы захотите настроить его.

Надеюсь, это поможет!

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Спасибо, но, по-моему, @Falco имел в виду раздел Администрирование > Настройка > Текст. Например, я могу найти такой фрагмент:

js.user.change_avatar.title

и ожидал, что существует также более высокоуровневый шаблон, определяющий всю страницу предпочтений пользователя и содержащий этот фрагмент. Удалив раздел аватара из этого шаблона, можно запретить пользователям менять свой аватар. (Или своё полное имя, что я и хочу сделать.)

Но я всё ещё не могу найти шаблон, определяющий страницу предпочтений пользователя.

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Нет, я имел в виду именно то, на что указал @weallwegot. Вы можете узнать, как переопределять шаблоны, прочитав Руководство разработчика по темам Discourse