At the moment, only students are listed, but this will probably change in the future. Unless a user changes it, the default value will be to list globally. Users can use the AKA field for alternative names. The search mechanism will search this field along with the usernames and full name fields. For example, William Smith can list Bill Smith as an AKA value.
Legal characters are limited to letters, numbers, commas, periods and dashes.
This field can be used to contain nicknames or anything else that a user believes somebody looking for them might enter. If, however, Robert Smith puts just Bob in the AKA field, and the field is searched for Bob Smith , nothing will be returned. We recommend, therefore, that users enter their last name with any nicknames. A search for Bob would return every Bob in the database. The search engine is very simple.