Hello Angelo,

I am sorry but currently we do not allow change of username as per Joomla's specifications. Changing the behavior of Joomla might eventually lead to unexpected results

Ok, no problem. Thanks

You are most welcome

Mark, turns out this is configurable in the core of Joomla to allow users to change their username.

Go to Administrator > Users > User Manager > Options

Find the option called "Change Login Name" which when set to yes, the user can change their username on the frontend of Joomla. Please consider allowing ES to allow username's to be changable on the frontend (considering that Joomla actually does allow this feature). Either a mentioning of this could be made on the admin option of ES or the option could be faded if it's not set in the Joomla core option to allow users to change their username.

Hm yeah you are right. It looks like this was probably added in 3.x series and not in 2.5 We'll see what we can do about this.

Thanks Mark. Perhaps it should be disabled for J 2.5?

That's when the anomalies happen and it's going to be hard to keep track of this. For example, if there's an app that stores the user's name, and when the user name changes, it needs to keep track of things otherwise, it's going to be haywire.

I see how that could be trouble. A few things I'd like to highlight about the user name change situation:

1. Joomla 2.5 also allows for the user to change their name (if the option is enabled). This means both J 2.5 and J 3.2 allow this. Theoretically we could have the name change option depend completely upon the user setting in Joomla (admin section). This way we would not have to worry about anomalies of which admin has it enabled or disabled.

2. Community Builder is able to allow username changes, even if Joomla's config has username change disabled. Maybe not the wisest method, but it does exist.

3. When it comes to apps, it should be storing the user's ID instead of their user name. Right? Keep in mind, right now an admin can change a user's name. So if an app depends on the user's name to stay the same, your going to end up with the same problem down the road because admins are going to change some user names from time to time. With this in mind, it's very important that apps be able to work with user name changes. Otherwise why allow the admins to change a username in the backend ES users if it will mess with apps?

We'll consider adding this in 1.3 but as of now, we are not going to add anymore features in the 1.2.x release. The more features you guys are requesting for 1.2.x, it will delay the development of 1.3.x. We have to freeze feature requests for 1.2.x for now.

That is fine Mark. I'm a patient guy with this kind of stuff, my theme is "doing it right over time". You guys know where to draw the line and when to set proposals to later major releases.

I appreciate your consideration of possibly adding this to ES 1.3.

Thanks for understanding Josh

Any news about this one?

I just realized, when a user signs up with facebook, it makes very much sense to give him the opportunity to change his username.
But in the same moment, I don´t want to distract him from signing on. My favorite would be: Sign on with only one click, and then give him the option to change the username if desired.

All the best, Julian!

I forgot about this issue Julian. I heard in another thread something about a few things still needed to be included in the ES 1.3 series.

I also agree StackIdeas is on the perfekt way to balance features and potential of developement.
Too much features would make the software instable. So I am glad they are not picking up everything that is suggested and that they take the time neccecary.

However, that doesn´t prevent me from writing what I am dreaming of. ;-)
About the facebook-login, the best process would be:

- Complete Registration is done with one click on the FB-Button. So there is no risk that a user skips because he doesn´t understand a simple question.
- After FB-Registration, he should instantly be asked what Username he likes to have. If he chooses another username, it should overwrite the name taken from Facebook. If he doesn´t pick something, the facebook-name should be taken
- IF the username is already taken or the eMail is double, he can be asked for his password and the data could be joined.

The most reason for me is to keep the registration as easy as possible. By completely automating it the user will need a way to change his data.
But however ... I think the registration-rate is better when the complete registration is done with just one click on FB-Button. The rest can be done afterwards.

And this is, why "change username" is so important for me. ;-)

All the best, Julian!

It would be a nice option to have i would vote for it ^^

Thanks for the input Julian, kindly please do post feature requests at http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial

I created here http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/530

Tisk tisk tisk. Take a look at the change log near the bottom: http://stackideas.com/changelog/easysocial (it's been out for many days)

Allow change username on edit profile.

This option is in the profile type custom fields under the username field. I'm grateful to see that this addition made it into ES.

Yeah, great!!!

Thanks you guys heading up on this