Ability to change name in participants list

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It would be nice to allow the users to change their display name in the
participants list.

Perhaps they could right-click it, choose "change display name" and then
have a small modal that would allow the change to be made.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jeremyth...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2009 at 1:37

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More or less the same idea like Jeremy:

When users use a phone or VoiP client to dial in to BBB then their names are 
numbers
(e.g. 3174646536364) which can be quite confusing if you sit in a room with 
more than
5 people. 

Idea ; make the username-textfield edittable for the host/presenter so he can 
change
the name of the user into a readable name like John, Hans, T. Becker, yo_momma 
or Ali G

Original comment by wpm....@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 11:31

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This is not just a simple client-side change ; the changed names have to be
broadcasted to the voice-participants window of all connected users.

Original comment by wpm....@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 11:33

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If BBB can send the message through to the Asterisk Manager Interface, the 
setvar 
command can be sent to rename the channel.

Then the next time it looks up the participant list the names of the channels 
will be 
set.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Manager+API+Action+SetVar

EG:
Action: Setvar 
Channel: SIP/202
Variable: CALLERID(name) OR CALLERIDNAME
Value: Clint Davis

Original comment by Clint.Da...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2010 at 2:37

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Clint,

  The problem is that a phone user that is not using the BBB phone client has no way 
of being associated with the corresponding web user.  So, changing the name of 
the web 
user can not change the name of the voice user - unless they are using the BBB 
phone 
through their computer.  Now, of course, we could add a change name dialog to 
both web 
and phone, and handle the phone as you suggest.  

Original comment by jeremyth...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2010 at 7:42

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Walter,
  If you have caller ID configured on Asterisk, the text value of the caller ID should 
appear instead if they are calling via phone.

Jeremy

Original comment by jeremyth...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2010 at 7:43

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So far all calls using my own phone (PSTN) showed as a number including the
international accesscode which is quite confusing for nationals.

Even then, when callers are using a cellphone or a office-line those names are 
often
not correct, if available at all.

If the host/presenter could change the name and then broadcast the updated list 
to
all users it would be fine. I know this will require a bit of work.

Original comment by wpm....@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2010 at 9:00

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 5:39

• Added labels: Component-Voice, Usability

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Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 6:13

• Changed state: New

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I'll look into it soon.

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2014 at 1:25