Question Set Allow Nickname on Posts to Yes but Name does not display

I have 3 joomla installs all running Kunena 1.6.2 on Joomla 1.5.22. 2 are test installs that I'm playing with to try to get live working correctly. On one of the test installs "Name" appears as it should under Category when you opt to post a new topic, but it will not display on the other test install nor the live site. I did a side by side comparison of the configuration settings and they are identical with the two test sites.

This includes both the Users and Security tabs. Allow Nickname on Posts is set to Yes on all. All sites are hosted on the same reseller hosting account, so this is not a variable factor.

www.jtest.us - This works
www.joomlareview.biz - This fails

I looked at the html code and it is different. On the ones that fail, the <tr> has display: none and the <td> has input disabled="disabled".

If I get a bad internet connection and load the page you can very briefly see the name field before it vanishes.

Through User Manager I synchronized the names, usernames and email addresses across both sites. This I can't explain why, but on the one that works it is showing the real name as Dmitri Koniahin (my test user). On the one that is failing the name seen in View Source (Firefox) shows as the email address: [email protected].
I cannot see where it is getting the display:none and disabled as the configurations are identical.

We advise you to upgrade to K 1.6.3 to see if this problem has been fixed in that version.

Is/was this a known bug? I can't see why it would work for one install then fail in several (actually 3, not 2) installs.

Looks like this feature does not work - or, just like you, I don't know how to make it work.

If you have a site where the feature works, can you post you configuration report. Please post the configuration report for the site where this feature does not work. Maybe I can then understand more about what you need to do.

As I noted in the first post, it is working on www.jtest.us . It is failing on 3 other sites including joomlareview.biz. Undoubtedly it is display:none that is being set along with disabled="disabled" which causes the failure. I upgraded joomlareview.biz to 1.6.3 to no avail. Same problem.

If you can tell me where and how in what template file to hack this I'll do that until it gets fixed. Configuration report - I'm not exactly sure what you need but for www.jtest.us which is the same as joomlareview.biz:

Forum Configuration: Users

Display User Name: No
Require E-mail: No
Show E-mail: No
Show User Statistics: Yes
Show Karma Indicator: Yes
Enable Thank You Feature: Yes
User Edits: Yes

Forum Configuration - Security:

Allow Guests to post/write: No
Registered Users Only: No
User Can Delete Own Post: Never
Allow to moderator to view and restore deleted messages: No
Allow Username Changes: No
Allow Nickname on Posts: Yes

Forum Configuration - Plugins:

Show Real Name: Yes
Show Username: Yes

I would be willing to give access to a support team member privately if it helps.

It took me a while to figure out what this means and how it works. I enabled the feature on a test site (see the following images):





The option to enter a nickname shows only when you are replying in a topic. There's no option to enter a nickname when you start a topic. So, the news is not all that bad, is it?

UPDATE: You can, however, create a new topic and then edit the first post and change the username at that time.

I would still advise you to upgrade to K 1.6.3 in any case.