We are using Cute Chat within our DNN implementation.  Currently, the username is shown during the chat session but we would like to use the Display Name in DNN that's available to us for the chat session instead.

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks.

Yes. It's possible.

 

Please open App_Code\DNNChatProvider.vb and change line 84 to:

 

                user.FullName
                user.DisplayName
                user.FirstName
                user.LastName

Hope it helps.

Line 84 is explicitly this:

            If System.Web.Security.Membership.ValidateUser(loginName, password) Then

inside this function: Public Overrides Function ValidateUser(ByVal loginName As String, ByVal password As String) As Boolean

 

Do you think it's in this function: Function GetUserInfo

and I change nickName = user.Username to nickName = user.DisplayName?

 

Other functions in this class where this change might make sense:

      Function GetLogonIdentity

      Function FindUserLoginName

 

Thanks for your help.

Is there an easy way to do this in the Sample Portal provided?

Hi,

 

In the SampleProvider.cs ,

 

find the public override bool GetUserInfo(string loginName, ref string nickName)

 

and change the nickName=loginName;  to

 

nickName=loginName+"!";

 

and then compile it and test it.

 

Regards,
Terry

 

Could you throw some light on how you did it.

 

Cheers!

Hi dhananjaym,

 

1. Open file 'DNNChatProvider.vb'(App_Code\DNNChatProvider.vb)

 

2. Find section  nickName = user.Username

 

3. Change the section above to  nickName = user.DisplayName

 

Regards,

 

Ken

Hi,

 

I am currently using this in GetUserInfo function

 

nickName = userObj.Screenname;

 

 

But still in the Web messenger in online friends when I mouse over the contact I can see the username

alongwith display name.

 

Regards,

Dhananjay

 

 

dhananjaym:

Could you throw some light on how you did it.

 

Cheers!

 

Since my issue was within the chatrooms, I wrote a GetUserDiplayName function into the SampleProvider.cs file. 

public string GetDisplayName(string username)
        {
            SqlConnection conn = this.CreateConnection();
            String tusername = "User:" + username;
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT DisplayName from CuteChat4_User WHERE UserID=@Username", conn);
            SqlParameter paraUsername = cmd.Parameters.Add("@Username", SqlDbType.NVarChar);
            paraUsername.Value = tusername;
            try
            {
                conn.Open();
                string tmp = (String)cmd.ExecuteScalar();
                if (tmp.Length < 5) //in case they've never set a display name, but let "admin" in
                {
                    return username;
                }
                if (tmp.ToLower() != username.ToLower())
                {
                    return tmp;
                }
                else
                {
                    return username;
                }
            }
            catch
            {
                return username;
            }
            finally
            {
                conn.Close();
            }
        }