Hello CB, I put my sites/platforms live yesterday but still have a question I've been meaning to ask regarding a User's name display on a hashtag activity stream (in particular).

I use firstname and lastname.

The thing is on one of my platforms having the fullname (formatname) displayed on a hashtagged activity stream is a bit of a privacy concern. Otherwise profiles and Users activity is private.

Ideally I'd like to see "Firstname. Initial" Like John. P, but just firstname could work too. Could you point me in the right direction by any chance.

So I must make a new template for CB Activity. Do I change the activity.php or comments.php or both?

From having a look in activity.php if I wanted just first name I guess I would change [formatname] to [firstname]. Be great if you could confirm that. Any heads up on using the lastname initial would be much appreciated as seems like the best solution.

Kind regards

(my platform rule is to only use authorized hashtags, and Users are warned to keep the direct talk this initiates (outside of a group) non-personal, yet seeing someones full name when not professionally connected to that person, and maybe a picture could result in someone using that name to e.g. search for them on mainstream social media). Bit of a privacy concern. The community and social aspect happens inside groups.

Thanks Kyle, the fields you mentioned are indeed public.

Just with my usecase no option is ideal in the areas you mentioned. The best I can do is put in a disclaimer/warning and stick with Name Style: "first and lastname" and Name Format: "name only".

Formatname field only has options for: Profile, Profile Edit, Userlist and Registration Values. ---- I'm just looking to alter how "name" displays on the Activity Stream with [firstname]. [firstletter of lastname]. "Name" would then display as per current global settings on e.g. profile, groups etc.

It seems like a big ask, if anything comes to mind let me know.

By the way, Users only have access to their own activity streams. Invite (private) groups are heavily used. But I can't stop hashtags being used (previous question I asked). But I worked around this to make things better, just that a [firstname]. [firstletter of lastname] would be awesome (for my usecase) particularly for Activity Stream "name" display.

Kind regards

Thanks Kyle, I may reference this later for getting someone to do it for me but it seems slightly above my skillset at the moment. Reckon it could be easy enough for someone in the know though. Thanks for your time and feedback.