#1494 - admin be able to choose a different name for anonymous forum poster

By Rishi Saravanan
Added 4th Jan 2014, 3:36 PM
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Identifier	#1494
Issue type	Minor issue (breaks specific functionality)
Title	admin be able to choose a different name for anonymous forum poster
Status	Closed (no changes needed)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	cns_forum
Description	I think this is a small request-- in the admin forum configuration area where you have the option to "Enable anonymous posts", could we have a text field to choose how the anonymous poster would be labeled. I don't it to say 'By Guest' because in my closed site it gives the impression that someone from the public (not logged in) had made the post. I'd rather it say something like 'By Anonymous Member'. Thank you
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By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 3:41 PM

I think it's likely easy to deal with right now...

First do an Admin Zone search for Guest.

It should show various language strings. Most of them come though one called GUEST I think, but there'll probably be some others that reference it within wider sentences.

By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 4:14 PM

Thank you, I finally realized that I needed to change the 'By_simple' string

By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 4:20 PM

Oops, that one doesn't work because then every poster got re-labeled to the new name. I'm still looking

By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 4:22 PM

forgot to mention that I did try changing just the 'Guest' string, but I didn't see any change, and it's not in the list of language strings that are pulled up when looking at a forum page with an anonymous post

By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 4:22 PM

It should mainly be the GUEST language string (which is in the 'global' language file). Change that to "Anonymous Member".

That is what would be combined with BY_SIMPLE, to make the message you're seeing.

By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 4:23 PM

I will definitely take a look for you, but it might be a couple of hours as I'm in the middle of rearranging some notes.

By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 4:37 PM

Aahah! The system isn't showing the 'Guest' language string change on an existing post (even if I empty all related caches). It only shows 'Anonymous Member' if I make a new forum post

By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 7:13 PM

I just posted a quick tutorial to:
http://compo.sr/site/s/1/15.htm

By Guest posted 4th Jan 2014, 9:01 PM

Thank you Chris for the tutorial and OCLE command. I want to keep the 'guest' usergroup name as it is so that it's distinguished from logged-in members who post anonymously. Therefore I've only applied the OCLE command, and we're in business. Thanks