Support for multi-cultural user name configuration for all user account forms and user name displays

• Type: Story
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Completed
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.0 M3
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0 M6
• Component/s: User Management
• Labels: None

There are many different ways to name persons on each different culture in the world. Liferay aspires to become a fully multi-cultural platform, so one of the things we need to support is multi-cultural personal user names support.

Here's a reference guide from the W3C organization that can be used as a starting point for this research - http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names.en.php?changelang=en

After an analysis in the subject, names should be built using the following "rules":

1) The high level view of a name is - Title (optional) + name + Suffix (optional)
2) Name is any possible permutation of - Given Name, Middle Name (optional) and Family Name - this can appear in any possible order.
3) While there can be family names ranging from 1 to 4 names depending on the culture/country we've decided to always show them as a single input field. This means that the values of user.name.fields cannot be repeater.

As this configuration is highly dependent to the country, language or culture, it should be completely configurable and the UI should dynamically change based on that configuration. Maybe using language.properties file?

Possible configuration options could be (forget about the property name, it's just a proposal):

user.name.fields=prefix,first-name,middle-name,last-name,suffix
user.name.prefix.options=Dr,Mr,Ms,Mrs
user.name.suffix.options=II,III,IV,Jr,Phd,Sr

This configuration must be honored wherever a user name is displayed.

It must also be honored in all forms that ask for personal user name details such as:

• Edit Account in User Management
• My Account
• Create User in Login portlet

Sample configurations for several languages

English

user.name.fields=prefix,first-name,middle-name,last-name,suffix
user.name.prefix.options=Dr,Mr,Ms,Mrs
user.name.suffix.options=II,III,IV,Jr,Phd,Sr

Spanish

user.name.fields=prefix,first-name,last-name,last-name
user.name.prefix.options=Sr,Sra,Sta,Dr,Dra
user.name.suffix.options=

Chinese

user.name.fields=last-name, first-name
user.name.prefix.options=
user.name.suffix.options=

Japanese

user.name.fields=last-name,first-name
user.name.prefix.options=
user.name.suffix.options=

Portuguese

user.name.fields=prefix,first-name,middle-name,last-name
user.name.prefix.options=Sr,Sra,Sta,Dr,Dra
user.name.suffix.options=

Hungarian

user.name.fields=prefix,last-name,first-name,middle-name
user.name.prefix.options=Dr.,Prof.,Úr,Asszony,Kisasszony,ifj.,id.,özv.
user.name.suffix.options=

German

user.name.fields=prefix,first-name,middle-name,last-name
user.name.prefix.options=Fr.,Hr.,Dr.,Prof.,Prof. Dr.
user.name.suffix.options=

Italian

user.name.fields=prefix,first-name,middle-name,last-name
user.name.prefix.options=Dott.,Dr.,Sig.,Sig.ra,Sig.na
user.name.suffix.options=

Catalan

user.name.fields= prefix,first-name,last-name,last-name
user.name.title.options=Sr.,Sra.,Dr.,Dra.
user.name.suffix.options=

Dutch

user.name.fields= prefix,first-name,middle-name,last-name
user.name.title.options=dhr., mevr., dr., drs., mr.
user.name.suffix.options=jr., sr.,

French

user.name.fields= prefix,first-name,middle-name,last-name
user.name.title.options=Mr,Mme
user.name.suffix.options=

Hebrew = English

Steps to test this user story:

• Sign in the portal
• Go to "My Account"
• Change the user language

Expected behavior: the name form should change acording to cultural preferences defined before.