Hello Matt,

Unfortunately it is not possible to hide the name field via easysocial settings with the current system. You can however request this idea in our easysocial voice page, http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial so that we will implement the feature in our future release

Ok thank you.. Is there any way to hide this field with css or would it also remove the field from both profile types?

Currently we offer two profiles types and on one of them I need to hide the name field which is why I set the option in Easysocial admin to fallback name to username. I am just a little bit confused about how this function is supposed to work if the field still shows up for users to fill out. Thank You

Hello Matt,

There is no work around for this because the "name" field is compulsory as Joomla requires it. Even if you hide this, the registration wouldn't work because Joomla wouldn't allow you to create such user.

I understand that Joomla requires a name field, but I thought that the purpose of name fallback to username was so that you can hide the name field and just require a username. That way as far as joomla knows there still is a 'name'. I have done the same thing in the past with other sites not running Easysocial and just the default Joomla registration, you can hide the name field if you set the name to fallback as username. Is there a reason this can't work with Easysocial?

Thanks
Matt

Hello Matt,

I've tested to hide the Fullname from the registration and turn on the fallback to username and seems like it is working just fine for now. But this maybe will cause other issue in the future. If you want to try, you can provide us your backend and FTP so I can modify the file for you.

Hello,

Thank you for looking into this. I have provided my site details but before you make the edits I only want to hide the name field for one of the profile types (Artist). I still need the name field for the other two profile types (Tunesurfer / Artist Rep). With the current edit is it possible to hide this field from just one of the profile types or will this hide the field altogether?

Thanks
Matt

Thank you very much, everything seems to be working great. I will let you know if this edit causes any issues.

Cheers
Matt

Hello Matt.

You're welcome

hello,
I'm trying to do the same (for all profile) but does not seems to work for me

regards

Hello Comprateur,

Have you tried the solution provided by my colleague above? After the change, you need to manually hide the field from your backend > easysocial > profile types > registered > custom field > full name field. Set appear during registration to no.