The only name available to the LUWS is the name on a membership record. All the variations of a name stored locally on a unit MLS (preferred name) is not transmitted to Church headquarters. The only interface between MLS and the LUWS is what is stored on the Church servers.dmaynes wrote:I may have to defer to your experience. Most of the names in my ward do not have preferred names set because I haven't gotten around to doing it. But some do. The family where I was testing had some of the preferred names set, but not all of them. I know that I didn't set the preferred names. These members are not signed up for LUWS, so they didn't do it themselves. That leaves two potential sources: The preferred names were populated from MLS at some point, or the preferred names were assigned in LUWS in another ward. I don't know how the preferred names were assigned.
Do you know if MLS preferred names are propagated to LUWS?
Your last supposition is the most likely cause.
How names are handled in LUWS v2 may be different.