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[Bug 548208] Re: Users with a preferred name can't be found in a 'Find Friends' search by their real name

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From: Richard Mansfield <548208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:49:43 -0000
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** Changed in: mahara
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Users with a preferred name can't be found in a 'Find Friends' search by their real name
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548208
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Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Fix Released

Bug description:
They can only be found by their preferred name, which kind of makes sense if it's a student doing the search, but staff should always be able to find other users by real name.

I'm not even sure that this should apply to students. It does make sense in as far as: they can't see real names of other users who have a preferred name so therefore they shouldn't be able to search on them either. However, if the user they are trying to find has used an obscure nickname that the user doing the search isn't aware of, it could make it very difficult for these users to find each other.

Perhaps we need a forum debate on this?

This bug was imported from eduforge.org, see:
https://eduforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3068&group_id=176&atid=739