User model should have "full name" not "first name, last name"

[ian-ross]

The default Django user model has first_name and last_name fields, which is bad for internationalisation -- bad enough that I'd consider this a bug.

We're already using a custom user model, so we should update this to use a full_name field instead. That's a more substantial change from the defaults than our current custom user model, but the changes are mostly mechanical and really just a matter of copying the AbstractUser base class from django.contrib.auth.models, changing the fields it has and changing our user model to derive from it (or just folding the new "abstract user" definition into our user model.

These changes then need to propagate through the API and to the front end as well, obviously.

[Avin-Techv]

Is there an alternate solution to getting "full name"?

[oliverroick]

Hi @Avin-Techv, you can have a look at our custom User class to learn how we solved this.

[singitaN]

Hi @oliverroick I'm applying the same code but I get an OperationalError at /admin with a no such column: core_user.full_name