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[Joe Mulloy <jdmulloy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The way the author system is currently implemented you are required to
provide both a "First Name" and a "Last Name". This doesn't work for
bands who have a single word name. When a band has a multi word name I
can work around this issue by putting half in the "First Name" field and
half in the "Last Name" field. For single word authors I've worked
around this by putting a single space in the "Last Name" field. Ideally
each author would have a type, (i.e. Person or Band), and then if you
pick Band there would only be a single text field. Having 3 fields,
"First Name", "Last Name" and "Display Name" is probably over kill
anyways. A single "Name" field would probably be sufficient. I
understand that at this point changing fields in the database could be
difficult, but it would be nice if there was an elegant way to handle
single word authors.

** Affects: openlp
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Song author system doesn't support single word authors, like bands

Status in OpenLP - Worship Presentation Software:
  New

Bug description:
  The way the author system is currently implemented you are required to
  provide both a "First Name" and a "Last Name". This doesn't work for
  bands who have a single word name. When a band has a multi word name I
  can work around this issue by putting half in the "First Name" field
  and half in the "Last Name" field. For single word authors I've worked
  around this by putting a single space in the "Last Name" field.
  Ideally each author would have a type, (i.e. Person or Band), and then
  if you pick Band there would only be a single text field. Having 3
  fields, "First Name", "Last Name" and "Display Name" is probably over
  kill anyways. A single "Name" field would probably be sufficient. I
  understand that at this point changing fields in the database could be
  difficult, but it would be nice if there was an elegant way to handle
  single word authors.

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