Preferred Name
A vote for this would mean that UWWI staff would help cover resourcing deficiencies from other required services in order to move this work ahead without external prioritization.
The Preferred Name project seeks to enable all UW NetID holders to associate a preferred name with their UW NetID, and to propagate that name to PDS, PWS, and UWWI for use by dependent applications.
AdminBrian Arkills
(Admin, UW Web Services)
shared this idea
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Brian Arkills
commented
@Thayer: Yes, that's the expected behavior at this time. In other words, any PDS displayName value will have the capitalization changed so just the first letter in each word is capitalized. I'll add something to the backlog to consider adjusting this, but will need to consider unexpected consequences. Long term, this capitalization adjustment will go away when personal UW NetIDs also have the preferred name work done.
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Thayer York
commented
This appears to work as advertised for a shared NetID I administer but acronyms still don't appear to function. For example, the name we have set on a shared NETID starts with "UWLS ..." but this appears in the "From" field in Exchange 365 as "Uwls ...". This happened when setting it via the AVF displayName value as well. Is this expected behavior with this update?
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There's an update at
http://blogs.uw.edu/barkills/2014/08/14/preferred-name-shared-uw-netids-uwwi-and-exchange/ related to this.In short, if you wanted this capability for Shared UW NetIDs, it's here.