[Using Sakai] Sakai reports & name formats

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi 

Have you tried
roster.display.firstNameLastName=true

Cheers
S

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On 06/08/2012, at 13:45, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> Why does the Roster use different formats for Student names than the reporting tools?
> Roster uses “Last, First Middle:, reports use “First Middle Last” (if student has given a middle name.)
> Because different countries use different conventions for if/how to merge middle or multipart last names, there is no single algorithm for converting between formats, and thus reconciling names between the two sources.
> One could use Ids instead which are unique and shared, but that makes it hard to identify students on reports.
>  
> Is there some setup option for how the names are listed in various reports?
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