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Different Display Name for Windows Users

Different Display Name for Windows Users

When using Windows Authentication, the username used by Vault to fill checkin by, check-out by etc. is the DomainName\UserName.   Can you add an option to use the initials or the Display Name of the Windows user. Or add a way to create in Vault a display name for promoted users.

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gary.belisle
Advocate

This is a good one. If there were a checkbox option to import the Display name for imported domain users vs the User Name that would make life easier when setting up Routings on Change Orders.

ihayesjr
Community Manager
Status changed to: Accepted
 
DannyvanDuijn2
Advocate

Good Point! The Domainname/Username is also displayed in the Vault Revision Table on the DWG. An extra field (property) for the controlled username (First + Last name properties?) in the user menu would be nice. 

MikkaR
Observer

Add an Initals column to Vault "User Management" table. Allow it to be mapped to an Active directory ADUC field or not and maintain the Initials centrally. Map to Custom (i)Properties in the files.

DannyvanDuijn2
Advocate

The username of a Windows Account (Windows authentication) is projected with the domainname attached to it.

Example: domainname\windowsusername

This value is used for system properties like Checked Out By and Created By.

When using (one of) these property values in the Vault Revision Table is will alsways display the usename in this configuration. So the domainname is also projected on the drawing.

 

I thinj that it will be a good idea to have an extra editable field in the usersettings to change the display of the username so it will be configurable like the normal Vault account username.

 

see also forum thread: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Vault/Change-display-username-of-windows-account/m-p/3757813#...

 

Danny van Duijn

ihayesjr
Community Manager
Status changed to: Under Review
 
Maarten65
Advocate

And our domain name plus username takes a lot of space in the titleblock at the moment.

Would be nice if a user can change the 'display name' by himself. Just like the user name setting inside inventor

ihayesjr
Community Manager
Status changed to: Accepted
 
tmoney2007
Collaborator

I don't think they user should be able to set the display name, it should be an administrative task (maybe that could be a configurable configuration).

 

It would be helpful though.

DannyVanDuijn
Contributor

An additional reason for using a 'display name' instead of the AD account name is that companies with a lot of users 20+ often have numbers as usernames for AD accounts.

This will display the number of the user in the revison table and not a 'readable' name. 

Companies with this configuration are forced to use a manual user management for Vault.

tmoney2007
Collaborator

If you map a user property into a file, it should give you the option to map a variety of formats.  Doman\User, User, First Name Last Name, etc.

 

This way the system user properties become more useful.  Vault actually maps over the first and last name of the domain user if they are filled out on the AD side.

Jason.Summerfield
Autodesk Support

When using Windows Authentication, the username used by Vault to fill check-in by, check-out by etc is the DomainName\UserName. For example: John Smith => Windows username = ABC-123. Then in Vault you see that ABC-123 is working on a file but it's not very easy to know who ABC-123 really is.

 

suggested by: Flowserve, Cameron

m.sabotto
Contributor

Some companies like Danieli have more than one Domain, so in this case that specification is very usefull to point us into the right User or direction.

 

gilsdorf_e
Collaborator

I propose a different approach:

 

How about dealing with it the same way like to deal with date fields?

Here you have the ability to use for example "Checked in (date only)" or "Checked in".

 

 

The same should work for user names. At least in our case, first name and last name are available in the AD and thus in the Vault user.

 

I would like to see the possibility to have something like

 

"Checked Out By (First name)"

"Checked Out By (Last name)"

"Checked Out By (Full name)"

"Checked Out By (credentials)"

 

etc.

 

These are also available in the Vault revision table.

 

rev_table.png

 

 

Good point. We are struggling to differentiate the Vault users as our company use ID number to login to Windows.

smilinger
Advisor

Please also be aware that in eastern countries when you refer to full name, last name comes before first name, for example, Yao (last name) Ming (first name), not Ming Yao.

ChSchmidt
Enthusiast

Why not give the user account itself an extra ALIAS field, and the administrator can configure for each Vault if the ALIAS or USERNAME is displayed for all related entries?

prem
Enthusiast

As against the ability to search through First/last Names across Vault, this functionality is not available for ECO Routing definition, this makes it impossible to search users if they are having any thing other than thier first/last name as the user name for vault.

 

One such senario is where the Autodesk Vault users are mapped to domain, and the domain user names are basically thier employee ids (all numericals) hence to define routing would be tough task.

ihayesjr
Community Manager
Status changed to: Future Consideration
 
mark.cloyed
Collaborator

I have worked with several clients whose Windows authentication is a generic or sequential ID.  The users find it challenging to know who worked on a given file/item.  We see that the active directory information includes a 'friendly' user name.  It would be wonderful if we could configure vault to display the user account as either their user name, or their 'friendly' name.

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