Show alternate names in Sametime

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Hello all,

How do I set up Sametime to show alternate names for all users?

All users have an Alternate name in the Person names.nsf. How do I set it up to show in Sametime?

Thanks in advance for your help

Regards,
Katrine Chu

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Hello Chu-san.

You can use alternate name for Sametime users.
I don’t know which version and environment you are using, but if you are using Sametime 12 Docker, you can configure LDAP settings in custom.env.

Configuring additional LDAP servers on Docker and Podman

Set alternate name attribute in the following tag.

<Detail Id="Name"  FieldName="XXXX" Type="text/plain"/>

And Edit the following line in “custom.env” file.

LDAP_NAME_ATTRIBUTE_ENV=(user display name attribute)

Regards.
ShigemitsuPreformatted text

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Hello, shigemitsu.tanaka-san

Thank you for your solution and help on the question.

We are using version 12.0.2 FP1.
We have set attribute
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In custom.env - LDAP_NAME_ATTRIBUTE_ENV=altfullname.

Unfortunately, after testing these settings it is now impossible to log in. Every time I try to log in, errors are coming:

proxy_1 | 2025-07-04T11:48:15.213Z ERROR 1 — [nio-8080-exec-5] com.hcl.sametime.proxy.STLoginUtil : ERROR proxy not connected to community, client login will fail
proxy_1 | 2025-07-04T11:48:15.213Z WARN 1 — [nio-8080-exec-5] com.hcl.sametime.proxy.STAuthProvider : < authenticate: EXCEPTION_OCCURRED processing login response
proxy_1 | 2025-07-04T11:48:15.214Z ERROR 1 — [nio-8080-exec-5] com.hcl.sametime.proxy.STLoginUtil : ERROR proxy not connected to community, client login will fail
proxy_1 | 2025-07-04T11:48:15.214Z WARN 1 — [nio-8080-exec-5] com.hcl.sametime.proxy.STAuthProvider : < authenticate: EXCEPTION_OCCURRED processing login response
auth_1 | [2025/07/04 11:48:15] info: Warning: Response from proxy
auth_1 | [2025/07/04 11:48:15] info: {“error”:{“status”:401,“statusText”:“Unauthorized”}}
auth_1 | [2025/07/04 11:48:15] info: ::ffff:0.0.0.0 - - [04/Jul/2025:11:48:15 +0000] “POST /api/v1/login HTTP/1.0” 401 - “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36”
nginx_1 | {“time_local”:“04/Jul/2025:14:48:15 +0300”,“remote_addr”:“10.10.20.9”,“remote_user”:“-”,“request”:“POST /sametime-auth/api/v1/login HTTP/1.1”,“status”: “401”,“body_bytes_sent”:“22”,“request_time”:“0.015”,“http_referrer”:“-”,“http_user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36”,“http_x_forwarded_for”:“0.0.0.0”}

Can you tell me if there are other ways to customize the display of alternate names in Sametime?

Thanks
Regards,
Katrine Chu