# Expanding @username to @\[Full Name\] would be good in enterprise environments
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-username-to-full-name-would-be-good-in-enterprise-environments/39614
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [Fevereiro 15, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-username-to-full-name-would-be-good-in-enterprise-environments/39614 "2016-02-15T17:28:36Z")
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### Author:  [@clay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clay)
#### Post date: [Fevereiro 15, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-username-to-full-name-would-be-good-in-enterprise-environments/39614/1 "2016-02-15T17:28:36Z")
This is a feature we see wth Salesforce’s Chatter (which I loathe, but have to use from time to time). Basically, full names are included with @clay type mentions by using brackets.
I think the same feature would be really useful for Discourse, potentially as a setting that can be turned on and off by admins. With it on, using @clay would expand in the text to something like @[Clay Heaton].
In our environment, in particular, given that all of the other tools that we use will convert somebody’s username into their full name, it’s a little jarring to see Discourse posts with just @usernames everywhere, and have to think for a minute about who the people are.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [Fevereiro 15, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-username-to-full-name-would-be-good-in-enterprise-environments/39614/2 "2016-02-15T17:30:04Z")
I think this is a dupe of:
> [@Full name @mentions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-name-mentions/23896):
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> It would look more elegent in posts if @leo (for example) was presented as (or at least the user had the option to present it as) “Leo” or “Leo McArdle”.
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### Author:  [@clay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clay)
#### Post date: [Fevereiro 15, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-username-to-full-name-would-be-good-in-enterprise-environments/39614/3 "2016-02-15T17:31:18Z")
Right you are. My search-fu was weak. Please feel free to close as a duplicate (though the point stands that this would be super useful for adoption in enterprise environments)…
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [Fevereiro 15, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-username-to-full-name-would-be-good-in-enterprise-environments/39614/4 "2016-02-15T17:40:15Z")