hi robin
thanks for answering.
the point would be that you can mention a user with the @ sign so that this user gets an email notification (or can search for tasks/wikis where its username is mentioned).
after having a short look on the feature list, this functionality isn’t desired in the past?
but since the feature list is quite long :-) i will not add a new one.
what you think?
I strongly agree that it’s a very desirable feature.
There is already a feature request already and someone started (and stopped) working on it. We do welcome all contributions.
This doesn't seem to work for me, as of 8.3.1. When I type "@" in a comment and follow it up with the user name, there is no special behavior.
This is surprising, as the Wiki Documentation and user interface cues ("Comment and type @ to notify other people") both claim that this should work.
Robin Wagner : This seems easy to verify (I get the same behavior here in the Community Forum), but let me know if I should file a formal bug report with steps to reproduce.
using the "@" sign to reference users works exclusively for work package descriptions and comments, not for wiki pages.
If you added some members to your project, you can then add a comment to a work package and reference those users by entering the "@" sign. You will then see a list of potential users to reference which you can choose from.
I think I understand. Your reply is helpful-- I now understand that the @mention feature simply is not part of the Wiki editor at all.
According the docs, the Work Package Comment editor is similar, but not identical, to the wiki page editor (see "Full vs constrained editor" on the Wiki documentation).
When I described the issue, I had tried it in both places. It sounds like when it wasn't working in the Wiki, that was because of the limitation you're describing, and when it wasn't working in the Work Package Comment editor, it was for a different reason: the user who I was trying to @mention was not connected to the project that I was commenting on.
It looks like we have these strategies for mentioning a user:
@mention
user:"username"
user#id
Work Package Description and Comments
members of this project
any user
any user
Others (Wiki, Meetings, Project Overviews...)
none
any user
any user
Does this division exist because the Work Package Descriptions and Comments use the "constrained" editor? If this is the case, I believe I could submit a PR updating the line in the "Full vs constrained editor" (in openproject/docs/user/text-formatting/README.md) to help clarify the documentation.
(By the way, if there are any guidelines for submitting documentation-only PRs, I'd like to read them. I imagine that as a project team, it could certainly be annoying to be on the receiving end of a bunch of PRs with individual proposed changes to documentation.)
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Hi Stof,
there is no automatic tagging within the wiki but you can manually add a link to a user (like stof 999).
hi robin
thanks for answering.
the point would be that you can mention a user with the @ sign so that this user gets an email notification (or can search for tasks/wikis where its username is mentioned).
after having a short look on the feature list, this functionality isn’t desired in the past?
but since the feature list is quite long :-) i will not add a new one.
what you think?
thanks for openproject. it is great!
stof
Hi stof,
I strongly agree that it’s a very desirable feature.
There is already a feature request already and someone started (and stopped) working on it. We do welcome all contributions.
Best,
Oliver
This doesn't seem to work for me, as of 8.3.1. When I type "@" in a comment and follow it up with the user name, there is no special behavior.
This is surprising, as the Wiki Documentation and user interface cues ("Comment and type @ to notify other people") both claim that this should work.
Robin Wagner : This seems easy to verify (I get the same behavior here in the Community Forum), but let me know if I should file a formal bug report with steps to reproduce.
Hi Zack,
using the "@" sign to reference users works exclusively for work package descriptions and comments, not for wiki pages.
If you added some members to your project, you can then add a comment to a work package and reference those users by entering the "@" sign. You will then see a list of potential users to reference which you can choose from.
Feel free to open a feature request to enable this behavior also for other parts of the application (e.g. wiki pages, meetings):
https://www.openproject.org/development/submit-feature-idea/
I think I understand. Your reply is helpful-- I now understand that the @mention feature simply is not part of the Wiki editor at all.
According the docs, the Work Package Comment editor is similar, but not identical, to the wiki page editor (see "Full vs constrained editor" on the Wiki documentation).
When I described the issue, I had tried it in both places. It sounds like when it wasn't working in the Wiki, that was because of the limitation you're describing, and when it wasn't working in the Work Package Comment editor, it was for a different reason: the user who I was trying to @mention was not connected to the project that I was commenting on.
It looks like we have these strategies for mentioning a user:
Does this division exist because the Work Package Descriptions and Comments use the "constrained" editor? If this is the case, I believe I could submit a PR updating the line in the "Full vs constrained editor" (in
openproject/docs/user/text-formatting/README.md) to help clarify the documentation.(By the way, if there are any guidelines for submitting documentation-only PRs, I'd like to read them. I imagine that as a project team, it could certainly be annoying to be on the receiving end of a bunch of PRs with individual proposed changes to documentation.)
Hi Robin, Zack and Oliver,
has there been a feature request for functionality already? I would love to have this feature among other.
Especially to have common way of referring to entities within the realm of the OpenProject instance:
Cheers,
Sven