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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: mahara/17.04
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

** Changed in: mahara/18.04
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1749834

Title:
  Not showing username to users when "never display usernames" is set to
  no

Status in Mahara:
  Fix Released
Status in Mahara 17.04 series:
  Fix Released
Status in Mahara 17.10 series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Mahara 18.04 series:
  Fix Released
Status in Mahara 18.10 series:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Operating system: Linux
  PHP: 7
  Mahara: 17.04.2
  Database: MySQL
  Browser: Chrome

  Site config setting in Question:
  Changed "Never show usernames" to "no" for site config

  Expectaiton:
  Users can now see usernames for other users

  Actual Result:
  Username does not appear when searching for users to share a page with (It only appears to admins and staff) 
  The setting for this on the config page is that changing this setting does not affect admin and staff (which is true), however regardless of this setting - users cannot see a username appear in search areas when sharing portfolio items.

  Possible Reason:
  Searchlib.php Function search_user calls "display_name($result)" (located in lib/user.php)

  User.php line 1125 - display_name takes 5 params - the last one of
  which is $username which is set to false by default.

  Lines 1134: 
      $nousernames = get_config('nousernames');
      $userto = get_user_for_display($userto);
      $user   = get_user_for_display($user);

      $addusername = ($username && empty($nousernames)) ||
  !empty($userto->admin) || !empty($userto->staff);

  As username is set to false when calling this function from a search,
  the net result for normal users $addusername is always false.

  Cheers

  Kevin

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