[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #4331: Author's Name in Activity Action does not change upon changing the name from settings

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#4331: Author's Name in Activity Action does not change upon changing the name
from settings
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 Reporter:  gagan0123     |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:
Component:  Activity      |     Version:  1.5.6
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                |
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 The reason the activity action doesn't change is because activity actions
 are stored as strings in the database at the time of creation. They are
 not generated dynamically on every page load - this would require a large
 amount of overhead. See, eg, #3063.

 There are a few ways to work around this restriction:

 (a) Put a filter on `'bp_get_activity_action_pre_meta'` or
 `'bp_get_activity_action'` and do your own dynamic action generation on
 the fly. (It may be more efficient to hook to `'bp_has_activities'` and
 loop through all of `$activities_template->activites` at once.)
 (b) Hook to the user displayname change action (I'm sure there are several
 places to hook) with a function that looks up all activity with the
 relevant user_id, and rebuilds the activity action accordingly (even just
 a str_replace() would probably work).

 Doing either of these in BP itself would not scale very well for medium-
 to-large sites (at least not without some major architectural changes),
 but either would be perfectly appropriate for a plugin.

 Going to close as wontfix for the moment. If you have a better idea about
 how this might be done without adding huge amounts of overhead, please
 share. Thanks!

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