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In The Netherlands lots of people have names like "van Dam" or "de Boer". Since there's no middle name field in itslearning, names are sorted incorrectly in views. Currently "van Dam" can be found under "V" (instead of "D") and "de Boer" is under "D" (instead of "B").
Work-around for this issue is writing the last name as "Dam; van" or "Boer; de". However, this causes the names to look bad in the upper right corner. In my case it shows "Haan; de, Martin" or "Martin, Haan; de". An extra field should solve both the sorting and the representation issue.
Country | NL |
Category | Administration |
This is also useful in the US. We have over 200,00 students and many of the names repeat, even within a single school. Adding a Middle Name field would make it easier for us to distinguish which student we are looking at.