Add nickname field to Individual Contact Type

Interestingly, CiviCRM has "nickname" on Individual, Household, and Organization. I'm not sure I understand the use cases for Household or Organization having a nickname.

@jdleonard, I'm going to create an issue fork for this issue.

If the intention is to have nickname be a part of the individual's base name, it might be better to have nick name as part of the name field. ✨ Add more 'parts/fields' to the name Active

Maybe alias is better. Maybe aliases.

Thanks for jumping in Tyler! This seemed relatively simple until it didn't, haha!

Steve, I'm late to the game on the Name Field module. Thanks for your recent contributions there!

My perception is that the Name field has purposefully avoided hosting the text of a preferred/nickname, but I don't understand why. Maybe a philosophy that a nickname is "not a name"? It feels like it might be an uphill battle to get Name to host a nickname.

However the module appears to provide a passthrough of sorts...

After adding a nickname field to the Individual bundle, it looks like one can then reference it via the field config form ("Preferred component source") at /admin/structure/crm/contact-types/manage/individual/fields/crm_contact.individual.full_name. Then it becomes available via the name formatters / field formatter.

Do I have that right? It sure feels awkward, but also workable.

What's your recommendation for how we proceed?