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Are you tired of seeing the boring usernames of all your Effusia contacts instead of something more descriptive? Do you wish the contact list said Davey, Scott and Sally instead of dchapel, soaks, and scrawford? Did you know you can change the way your contacts are displayed, both globally or for an individual user? Effusia allows you to globally change how your contacts are displayed. In addition to the default Username display, you can display your contacts by their First Name, their Goes By, Full Name or their Last and First Name. Changing this global setting is simple. On the Effusia Console, select My Effusia -> Settings and select the Contacts tab. On the bottom of the Contacts tab there is a section named Other Options and a drop down box labeled Default contact display: Simply select the way you would like all your contacts to be displayed and click OK.

Now all your contacts will show up the way you configured them to. Your contacts are not just displayed on the contact list though. They are shown using your preference throughout the Effusia Console including all message windows, message history, alerts and any other place contacts names are shown.

In addition to globally changing the way your contacts are displayed, you can also change the way each individual contact is displayed. Setting the contact display for a specific user overrides the global default.

Changing the display for a single user is just as easy as changing it for all users. Simply bring up the contact list and right click on a user in the contact list. From the drop down menu select Edit Contact Display. That will bring up a dialog that allows you to set the specific contact to show as the default global setting, as one of the other standard options or a custom name.

Now dchapel can be “Davey”.