My initial post already said that I tried that, the line says:

"I have tried to use the [FIRSTNAME] token or combinations of any of the following tokens: [USERID],[FIRSTNAME],[LASTNAME] and [USERNAME], but none of them change the Display Name on the user lists."

Thanks, I have reported the issue on that bug tracker.

I also reported this issue on Stack Exchange, and Chris Hammond had suggested that it only works on newly created profiles. I verified that he was correct and that I created a new user with success of the Display Name presenting as I had chose it to.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24...

Unfortunately, the entire concept represents itself as a dynamic way to change the Display Name across the site for all users, and not a pre-processing db table entry upon profile creation that must be modified manually for each user afterwards.

I hope that someone sees this and offers to make it work like it suggests versus saying "it's how it was designed", because it clearly suggests otherwise and comes across as a clear oversight.

Mike,

if the update does not work, you can use the following SQL script in Host :: SQL to update the existing Display Names:

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UPDATE {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}Users
SET DisplayName = FirstName + ' ' + LastName
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The Tokens mentioned correspond to the following fields in the table:

After doing this you should restart the application pool (in the Tools menu).

Hope that helps.

Best wishes
Michael