name display consistency

Thanks Janet - you are always so responsive and it is much appreciated. I knew some of the ideas had already been implemented but included everything to show how widespread the issue is. For us it is largely the inconsistency of how faculty names display on rosters vs. the progress tab vs. report cards vs. schedules (and our lack of control over it) and the fact we can't control how the public directory displays. The recent change with allowing preferred name to display for coaches on the public website was a great step forward. However, it brought up another issue. We have always populated the (previously named) nickname field ONLY if the name was different than their first name because we don't like names to display as Susan "Susan" Ott in the faculty/staff directory. To have the coaches display properly on the team pages with preferred name, I had to populate that field for everyone with the coach role. Looks great for the team pages but now the directory is showing the Susan "Susan" Ott format for those coaches without a true nickname. Being able to control how the public directory displays would be huge. I'm sure some schools want the more formal first name/last name combo or like the first name/"preferred name"/last name display as it is now. It seems the only way to make everyone happy is to put that control for how all user names display in our hands. I also realize there may be way more involved in making that happen on the programming side than we could know; however, since some areas of the website already give that option (like the user name format - Core->Users->User Profile Settings->User name formats) I'm hoping it isn't as difficult as I fear. Again, thank you for your quick response!