Answers.Body: <p>You could upgrade your CiviCRM version (4.4) to the latest version (4.6+), which will display contact emails along with their names in the autocomplete, making it easier to distinguish between similar contacts.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/UDPfp.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks, good to know for another customer, but for this one upgrading is not an option right now.
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Answers.Text: Well at least you have an answer for them now. If they want new features, they gotta upgrade. Can't get one without the other.
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Answers.Body: <p>One way of resolving this might be for all the contact auto-complete widgets to reuse the same format as quick search (in the top menu bar). The setting is user configurable here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://d45.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/setting/search?reset=1" rel="nofollow">http://d45.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/setting/search?reset=1</a>
  (search for Autocomplete Contact Search)</p>
  
  <p>This probably is a good change to be made in core</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Good idea. Does this mean that somebody has to programme this in core? How does that work (I am not a programmer :) )
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Answers.Body: <p>I have been looking into this and for technicall people the assignee field in activities shows the sort_name of a contact. This sort_name could be build with some tokens but they are a bit limitted. </p>
  
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Body: <p>A couple of people have exactly the same name in CiviCRM: John Smith.
  When assigning an activity you select a person by starting to type its name. 
  However in case that people have exactly the same name, Civi shows both names.
  How can i distinguish between the two? 
  Showing an emailaddress behind the name, or showing a nickname would be very helpful but I don't see any way to configure this field. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas of tips? </p>
  
  <p>We're working in CiviCRM 4.4.8 </p>
  
Tags: <activities><duplicate-contacts>
Title: How to distinguish "Contacts with the same name" when assigning an activity?
ThreadText: # How to distinguish "Contacts with the same name" when assigning an activity?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-05-04)
  
  A couple of people have exactly the same name in CiviCRM: John Smith.
  When assigning an activity you select a person by starting to type its name.
  However in case that people have exactly the same name, Civi shows both names.
  How can i distinguish between the two?
  Showing an emailaddress behind the name, or showing a nickname would be very helpful but I don't see any way to configure this field.
  
  Any ideas of tips?
  
  We're working in CiviCRM 4.4.8
  
  **Tags:** activities, duplicate-contacts
  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-05-04. Score: 4
  
  You could upgrade your CiviCRM version (4.4) to the latest version (4.6+), which will display contact emails along with their names in the autocomplete, making it easier to distinguish between similar contacts.
  
  ![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/UDPfp.png)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks, good to know for another customer, but for this one upgrading is not an option right now.  
  > **username_1**: Well at least you have an answer for them now. If they want new features, they gotta upgrade. Can't get one without the other.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-05-04. Score: 3
  
  One way of resolving this might be for all the contact auto-complete widgets to reuse the same format as quick search (in the top menu bar). The setting is user configurable here:
  
  <http://d45.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/setting/search?reset=1>
  (search for Autocomplete Contact Search)
  
  This probably is a good change to be made in core
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Good idea. Does this mean that somebody has to programme this in core? How does that work (I am not a programmer :) )  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-05-04. Score: 1
  
  I have been looking into this and for technicall people the assignee field in activities shows the sort\_name of a contact. This sort\_name could be build with some tokens but they are a bit limitted.
  
  
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