changed Administrator-name not updating for previous posts?

[erich37]

I have had the Admin-name (username of Admin) at my Forum set as my "First Name + Last Name" previously and have posted several posts.

Now I have changed the Admin-name from "First Name + Last Name" towards "Another Name".
My issue is that the posts which I have submitted using "First Name + Last Name" are not updting the author-name towards the new Admin-name called "Another Name".

How can I change the author name of all my Admin-posts so that the new user-name will show up ?

 

[ragtek]

AFAIK you would only need to call XenForo_Model_Counters::rebuildBoardTotalsCounter()

 

[Brett Peters]

last_post_username does not seem to update for any user with a name change
Does this mean that google will index old usernames and link them to the new profile name ?

 

[Mike]

Rebuilding the thread and forum caches will update the last post names.

 

[erich37]

I guess this is not possible when running on XF Beta5 version, right ?

 

[Paul B]

It's a recent change (RC2) so no.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/resolved-admin-name-change.11149/#post-149176

 

[Walter]

Rebuilding the thread and forum caches will update the last post names.

This is highly impractical for large forums. Rebuilds for forums with millions of posts have to be rare; so this would mean that we can't allow our users to have their names changed.

 

[Paul B]

It's only for the last post on the forum list view.

On large forums that's unlikely to be an issue as presumably the post rate will be quite high.

 

[erich37]

why not code it so that the names update without having to do a rebuild ?

 

[erich37]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/allow-users-to-change-their-username.12813/

 

[dieketzer]

why not code it so that the names update without having to do a rebuild ?

my guess would be that it would be query-expensive.