User Mentions
When you are typing in the post editor, type the @ symbol and (at least) 3 (or more) characters, which are matched against users' display names, and you are presented with a list of one or more users:
After you select the desired user, their DNN avatar and a link to their user profile are inserted into the post:
When you are mentioned in a post, you will receive a DNN notification:
There is also a user option where you can disable/enable these notifications:
User Mentions are currently powered by some custom plugins for the CKEditor4 HTML editor provided with DNN. We have a new editor option that allows you to select this editor instead of the default DNN editor.
This editor option is now the default for a new installation, and if you are upgrading, and it was previously set to Default DNN Editor, it will change to the new DNN CKEditor4 plus Forums plugins option.
In the control panel, there is now a feature setting that lets you select the "editor" for each forum, forum group, or default for the module (remember that you can have forums inherit from groups, and groups inherit from module defaults, so you might only need to set this for the module defaults and it will flow downward):
In the forums Features section of the control panel, you can enable/disable mentions. If they are enabled, there are two options you can set:
- First, you can limit the "visibility" of which users are displayed when selecting users to mention.
- Only Friends -- this limits your selection to just those users with which you are "friends"
- Registered Users -- any registered users but neither Administrators nor Super Users
- Registered Users and Administrators but not Super Users
- Everyone -- any registered users plus Administrators plus Super Users
NOTE: for a Forums module instance running in "Social Groups" mode, only members and administrators of the group associated with the forum will be displayed, and this setting is completely ignored.
- If you've enabled user mentions, you can fine-tune the security to enabled/disable specific roles which can mention other users.
For new installations, this is enabled for Administrators and Registered Users. For upgrades, this will be set to match the security for "Edit".
You can then maintain the individual roles in the security matrix; this specifies which user roles can mention other users in a post:
