How to avoid Employee Maintenance to automatically fill up middle name when checking some status

Epicor ERP 10
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Hello there, I would like to know if it is possible to turn off automatically filling up the middle name (Some Names do not have middle names).

Example situation:

  1. Fill up First name and Last Name in Employee Maintenance.
  2. Check shop supervisor
  3. The middle name takes the Last Name’s initial

Is there a solution to avoid the hassle of changing the name’s field over and over again to avoid this situation.

Note: this only happens to few roles in the employee maintenance.

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Thanks for the assist! :slight_smile:

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what version are you running, have you checked if there are any BPMS in this area

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Yep, I can’t reproduce it either.

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Uploaded a sample video on how to reproduce the problem.

Ignore the sample name. But what I am trying to convey is that some names have no middle name only first and last names, so is there a way to prevent from the system to automatically generate a middle name initial when clicking shop supervisor.

To answer your questions:

  • Version: Epicor 10.2.700.11
  • Checked, but no BPMs are included in this area.
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The name you showed has what the system views as a middle name.

If you don’t want this behavior, you’re going to have to code around it.

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The normal behaviour in this form is you would enter the first name, middle initial and surname and then epicor creates the name from these three fields.

You say you don’t want a middle name, but the example shown, clearly shows a middle name. Jane Nancy Doe, If you enter Jane in the first name field and Doe in the surname, you will get the name Jane Doe.

If the last two names are surnames, then you will need to hyphenate them.

entering Jane Nancy-Doe will give you the desired result.

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On an academic note, this name deconstruction “feature” is probably something that should never have made it into the product.

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Exactly - this is rather ignorant on the part of whoever programmed Epicor 1.0 or wherever this originates. I’ve had many coworkers and friends with a non-hyphenated two-name last name - especially those of Hispanic background. I’m honestly rather shocked that this hasn’t been addressed in all these years.

But agreed with everyone else - you have to trick the system. Enter only one last name, then save, then add the other. Or hyphenate then remove the hyphen. Etc.

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Incidentally, my wife has two first names and two last names - no middle name … so in order to maintain the integrity of her name, we would have to add hyphens between each name pair? Great

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