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Topic: Hiding member's real name

Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Subject: Hiding member's real name
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:07pm

Is it possible to hide the member's real name in the profile?

My reason is my Forum is to support my company products only and I don't want competitors to be able to use the Membership List to mine for new customer's.

Replies:

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:19pm

Yes

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Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:25pm

OK. How?

I've searched around and haven't seen it bu that's not saying it's not there.

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Thanks,

Walg

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:28pm

On member_profile.asp about line 410 you should have:

<tr class="tableLedger">
  <td><% = strTxtInformation %></td>
  <td><% = strTxtCommunicate %></td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="tableRow">
  <td valign="top">
   <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2">
    <tr>
     <td width="30%"><% = strTxtRealName %>:</td>
     <td width="80%"><% If strRealName <> "" Then Response.Write(strRealName) Else Response.Write(strTxtNotGiven) %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>

Replace that with:

<tr class="tableLedger">
  <td><% = strTxtInformation %></td>
  <td><% = strTxtCommunicate %></td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="tableRow">
  <td valign="top">
   <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"><%

         If blnAdmin Then
 %>
    <tr>
     <td width="30%"><% = strTxtRealName %>:</td>
     <td width="80%"><% If strRealName <> "" Then Response.Write(strRealName) Else Response.Write(strTxtNotGiven) %></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>

That will effectively only allow admin to see the real name

Backup your file first though Wink

before you try it as I don't want to be blamed LOL

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:29pm

And please give me the thumbs up if it worked Wink

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Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:29pm

Sounds good Mr TWS. I can't give it a try right now but will later and will report results. Thanks.

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Thanks,

Walg

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:31pm

Your welcome - by the way it should work - as I did a similar thing on someone elses forum as they required privacy too Wink

Have a good evening

MrTWS signing off

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:33pm

By the way - your site looks great Thumbs Up

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Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:38pm

Again, Mr. TWS, I appreciate the comments. We are just a Mom and Pop operation working out of our home. I've taken over the livingroom and dining room plus the garage. [chuckle] Its a totally captive operation as all we buy is raw products and I do all the IT work too. I have a wide range of backgrounds that have all come togther with this little company. With being laid off in January and also being 67 I doubt I'll get hired again no matter how many certifications I have. So this has to fly.

Again, thanks for the comments.

Walt

Rusty Stumps Scale Models

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:46pm

Well then in that case you have done exceptionally well Walt and for what's it worth - I think it looks pretty damn good
I loved model railways as a kid and we never grow up do we?
Good luck with your project and should you ever need a pair of middle aged people living out there too, just say Wink

We have made quite a few friends out in the states
Check your http://whois.domaintools.com/rustystumps.com" rel="nofollow - own site for its score and see what you can do just to up it a bit

Hope that helps and keep in touch

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Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:59pm

Nope, got a "page not found" error on that. I see what you were trying to do but is it possible that "blnadmin" isn't available on my system? I figured that was a alias but as soon as I set the code back everything worked OK.

I'm coming to the realization that this is definately a mod I need to install so if you come up with anything better in code I'd appreceiate it. Thanks for the effort so far.

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Thanks,

Walg

Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 10:00pm

Mr TWS, I have gone in and REMd the code that shows the member's Real Name in the Profile screen. For right now that suits my purpose as I can view all info in the database table as it's on my server. I still feel this would be a good MOD to have and there may be additional fields others would think best to have options on so they don't display in the Profiles.

Thanks. I feel you gave me a great place to start and if ever you go further with it let me know.

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Thanks,

Walg

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 6:18am

Sorry Walg

I assumed you were using Web Wiz Forum Software Ermm

but what version?

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Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 2:32pm

Yes, I'm using the Web Wiz Forums software version 9.56 (latest version).

I see that the Web Wiz Forums has the Real Name blocked on their Profile pages. I wonder why that isn't an option for everyone else?

It's not good to expose that kind of information on a forum. To easy for someone to exploite it.

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Thanks,

Walg

Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 3:42pm

Look at the forum version being used here................... bottom of page.........

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Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 3:47pm

Figures!

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Thanks,

Walg

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 3:55pm

Entering your real name is just an option, you don't have to. However, if you enter information about yourself on to a public forum then you are placing that information into the public domain and you should be aware of that before giving personal information on yourself.

Some people don't mind, it's simply up to the individual, you just need to be aware that it is a public forum and that other members will have access to information you put in your public forum profile.

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Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 4:10pm

Well, on my particular forum I require that they enter their Real Name. My reason is I'm in a very competive buisness and we also have our share of cracks. There are a number who make the rounds on forums causing as much trouble as they can generate before being banned.

I limit postings to just subjects on products that I manufacture. There are competitors that have been know to try and post their own materials on others forums as a form of free advertising or have been know to also try and gather names and email addresses for other advertising purposes.

By having members enter their name I can watch them a bit more closely and it tends to put the trouble makers on notice that they are being watched.

Thus the reason I want to be able to set it so the member's Real Name is only visible to me.

Thanks,

Walt

Rusty Stumps Scale Models

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Thanks,

Walg

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 5:39pm

Right I've sussed it Rusty Thumbs Up

Example logged in as admin

Example logged in as average user

Excuse the blue wipeouts but you can see Real Name does not appear to the average user, only admin

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Posted By: Rusty Stumps
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 5:49pm

Is this the same code you sent me or something different?

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Thanks,

Walg

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 23 April 2009 at 6:22am

Something different and it works because I've tried it
Go to http://www.fairdebt.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - this test forum and register and you will see what I mean - as a normal user you won't be able to see the real name - only admin and moderators (if you wish them to) can see it

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 23 April 2009 at 2:25pm

Just to add that the beauty of this is YOU will still be able to see their real name, whereas your rem statement actually hides the name from you at present

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