I've been looking all over looking for a solution to my problem.  I am using DNN 3.2 with active directory turned on for my local intranet.  The Active Directory part of DNN pulls the firstname and lastname from AD but what i would like is it to full the firstname and lastname from the AD displayname.  I see a reference to displayname on source page "controls/ADSI/configuration.vb" line 133.

For example the AD firstname would be "Judith" and AD lastname "Smith" but AD displayname would be "Judy Smith"

Has anyone been able to use the display name?

Hi guys same issue except with DNN 4.3.3

I'm also using it for an intranet and have setup Windows Authentication. It works well, my domain users are automatically being logged into the website with their Domain credentials. But again, on first visit to the site the Display Name field does not automatically populate, but the other fields, First Name, Last Name and Email all self populate from the AD but not the Display Name.

Until this field is populated the users cannot access their User Profile as the Display Name link does not display next to the Login link.

I am currently loggin in as an admin and manually entering the Display Names but our domain has around 200 users :(  It would be really easy to fix this small bug with a simple string manipulation if I knew where in the code to add it. I'll spend I bit of time trying to dig through the module and see what I can come up with but its best if a proper "Official" fix takes place.

Hope someone gets this one resolved soon.

Cheers,
Darren Stahlhut
ASP.Net (VB.Net) & SQL Developer

Darren,

Same issue, installed DotNetNuke last week and got upset from a thought that I would need to manually update Display Names for all users in the company (although 60, not 200!). Being a lazy guy, I always search for easier solutions ...

I have analyzed the current source code, and the only way I could fix the issue is by hacking the database stored procedure.  But in the end it works perfectly! Modify the dbo.AddUser stored procedure, and check if the @DisplayName parameter is empty, then make it @Firstname + ' ' + @Lastname:

IF ( @DisplayName is null OR @DisplayName = '' )
BEGIN
   SET @DisplayName = @FirstName + ' ' + @LastName
END

More so, apparently our AD did not have email addresses properly entered for all users. So I put a hack into the stored procedure to infer the email, if it's emtpy. But you don't have such a problem.

The only downside, is that this fix might be overwritten by SQL scripts if dotnetnuke installation is ever upgraded. By that time I am hoping proper fix will be available, though.

Hope this helps (until official fix is posted).

Cheers,
Lev.