# Switching Teammate Name Display to a System Console Setting
**URL:** https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [June 6, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366 "2017-06-06T14:49:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@lfbrock](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/lfbrock)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/1 "2017-06-06T14:49:01Z")
Currently, in Account Settings \> Display we have a setting that lets users control whether names in Mattermost are displayed as full names or usernames.
This causes a couple of issues we’ve heard feedback on:
1. System Admins want to be able to set this for all their users (most people would prefer full name to be shown by default instead of username)
2. Push notifications and email notifications do not follow the existing setting for performance reasons
Based on the above feedback, **we plan on switching the setting to be a system wide setting and removing the end user setting.**
This would let admins control how the name display looks for all their users, instead of having to explain to them how to go change the setting.
If anyone has feedback or concerns about the proposed change, we would love to hear it - please comment below!
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### Author:  [@lfbrock](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/lfbrock)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/2 "2017-06-06T14:50:10Z")
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### Author:  [@gubbins](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/gubbins)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/3 "2017-06-16T23:05:10Z")
I can see the logic of setting the _default_ on the server (and having that apply to notifications), but I expect a lot of our users to be disappointed if they can’t override this. Specifically some people prefer the “nickname if exists” setting and others prefer the full name.
Can we keep the option for users to enable “nickname if exists”?
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### Author:  [@lfbrock](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/lfbrock)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/4 "2017-06-19T15:10:52Z")
Hi @gubbins - that’s one of the things we were wondering about, but we weren’t sure what the demand for a user specific setting would be like.
I think if it’s a common need, we can add the user setting back in as well and have the system one as a default. (We would probably need to have the push notifications and email notifications still follow the server setting for performance reasons though.)
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### Author:  [@gubbins](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/gubbins)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/5 "2017-06-20T00:18:06Z")
Understood @lfbrock. I think the demand certainly exists here in my workplace (I will likely get moaned at if this is taken away!)
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### Author:  [@rjkmurray89](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/rjkmurray89)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/6 "2017-06-27T08:20:02Z")
I am working on this now with everyone
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### Author:  [@jasonblais](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/jasonblais)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/7 "2017-06-27T23:08:01Z")
> I am working on this now with everyone
Can you help describe more what you mean @rjkmurray89?
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### Author:  [@bnf2si](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/bnf2si)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/8 "2017-07-13T14:36:49Z")
that feature sounds great.
Is it already possible to at least set the default “Teammate Name Display” system wide?
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### Author:  [@jasonblais](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/jasonblais)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366/9 "2017-07-20T12:51:24Z")
@bnf2si Starting with Mattermost 4.0, the “Teammate Name Display” can now be set system wide in the System Console: [https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#teammate-name-display](https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#teammate-name-display)
There is also a feature proposal for having an end user setting in addition to the system one:
> **[Allow users to choose the Teammate Name Display option](https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/suggestions/20209453-allow-users-to-choose-the-teammate-name-display-op)**
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> From version 4.0 the Teammate Name Display option is an administrator only option for the reasons explained at https://forum.mattermost.com/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366
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> Please add another option in the \_System...
Please consider upvoting it if you want to see the feature as we’ll use that to help gauge how big priority it would be in the community.