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What is the recommended way to register the name of a person? #19

Open danse opened 9 years ago

danse commented 9 years ago

Considering for example input fields on a form, should they be:

1- name 2- name, surname 3- name, other names 4.- ... ?

cristinasantamarina commented 9 years ago

4 - first name, last name (NutSurv) 5 - name, surname, prename (HAT)

danse commented 9 years ago

@cristinasantamarina hum, these are different alternatives. The point is not how we are inconsistently doing this now, but what is the recommended way of doing this in the future. For example, using just a single name field in the future could save us many problems, supporting easily cultures with arbitrarily complex naming conventions

danse commented 9 years ago

oh you just wanted to extend the collection ... allright sorry :)

cristinasantamarina commented 9 years ago

@danse Yes just pointing out which other alternatives we use. I think if we want to set an standard it is worth looking at what we have.

Is the idea to replace the current models or to aim at using a standard from now on?

danse commented 9 years ago

Just a recommendation for the future, answering to questions like the recent one from @lucychambers

What is conventional wisdom on how to do name fields? One field for ‘name’ or two ‘First name / Last name’