[rt-users] Accessing User_Local.pm user defined methods from Mason

[Paulo Filipe Andrade]

Thanks for the patch!
You might consider using the display name when sending an email too!

lib/RT/Action/SendEmail.pm line 640
- my $friendly_name = $self->TransactionObj->CreatorObj->RealName
+ my $friendly_name = $self->TransactionObj->CreatorObj->DisplayName


On Jan 25, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Dirk Pape wrote:

> Hello,
>
> --Am 25. Januar 2008 18:22:46 +0000 schrieb Paulo Filipe Andrade
> <pauloandrade at ist.utl.pt>:
>
>> I have tried adding DisplayName => { 'read' => 1 }, and it works..
>> kind of. The first user's name in the drop down never gets displayed.
>> Somehow the first call to the method never goes through..
>> Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> I am quite sure that the first user in the dropdown is "Nobody"  
> which has
> neither Nickname nor Realname. You need a fallback (e.g. to User- 
> >Name if
> both are empty).
>
> We have already a patch for the same thing (and more): We did not  
> like that
> in some cases the Emailaddress was displayed when showing a user in  
> other
> cases the Username (with or without Real Name).
>
> So we patched most occurrences where users are displayed with a call  
> to
> DisplayName or (in some cases) FriendlyEmailAddress, methods which we
> implemented in User_Overlay.pm.
>
> I attach a link to our patch here for reference. You may find that  
> it is
> worth to modify other places of User display as well. (The patch is  
> not yet
> ready because I am not sure whether we missed some places, where a  
> User
> will be displayed - so we did not yet modify Admin pages).
>
> <http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/pape/rt3/patches/rt/unified_user_display.patch 
> >
>
> Regards,
> Dirk.
>
> -- 
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