'How to stop Maybe from being passed into another function in Haskell [closed]

I have already looked at this answer, but it is unclear to me how to apply it in my situation.

I have the following function:

designC :: DesignC -> Maybe CDef -> String
designC FirstString _ = "first_string"
designC SecondString _ = "second_string"
designC UnknownString c = getName c

The getName function takes a CDef as it's argument. However the above code will not work and has the following error:

No instance for (getIdea (Maybe CDef))     
arising from a use of ‘getName’
In the expression: getName c

I tried:

designC UnknownString c = getName (Just c)

but the error shows that this made things worse

No instance for (getIdea (Maybe (Maybe CDef)))

How can I pass just the CDef to getName?

haskellmaybe


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