Hello Everyone,
I noticed after upgrading to 2.8.1 that there are a number of new sortable fields such as "First name - phonetic" and "Surname - phonetic."
The tracker for this new feature is located here: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-46921
We don't use these fields and it's confusing to our users to have them visible. Can they be hidden or disabled?
Thanks!
David
Good question David! I've taken a look around but can't see any way of removing the additional name fields from the enrolled users page in a course or when browsing the list of users on the site as an admin. They aren't shown on the participants page in a course though.
If nobody replies with a suggestion for removing the additional name fields, please feel free to create an issue for it in the Moodle Tracker. If you post the issue number in this discussion then others can comment and/or vote for it to be implemented.
Has anyone created a tracker item yet?
Okay, looked around and I couldn't find anything. I created a ticket for this: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-49742 . Please vote!
The CSS isn't really working for me..still having those /'s look really bad, worse than having the unnecessary fields show imo.
Hi Torsten,
I was able to use this CSS to hide the sort options but the middle slashes are still there. Any easy way to hide those too?
.subheading_alternatename, .subheading_lastnamephonetic, .subheading_firstnamephonetic {
display: none;
}Thanks!
David
Hi David, thanks for the CSS tip, did you manage to figure out how to get rid of the superflous "/"?
got a new solution
in your settings Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > User policies
you have under fullnamedisplay
alternativefullnameformat change the value to
firstname, lastname
at my moodle it works
Ahh, wait I think this does work. I was only looking at the full name format. I think changing that alt. full name does indeed work! I wonder if this has any side effects?
Hmm, now what bothers me is that the width isn't wide enough. With all of the fields showing it made it wide. Now it breaks earlier and it makes the names look too squished...I know picky but does anyone know how to change that?
which theme do you use ?
Clean.
Create an issue in the Moodle Tracker, David. I'll vote for it.
Hrynkiw
Kwantlen Polytechnic