elgg / mentions

Rewrite all @username mentions to link to profile and optionally notify user

Mentions plugin

• Replaces @username with links to the user's profile
• Sends notifications to users mentioned in posts

Notes

Supported content types

To add support for custom object or annotation types in outgoing notifications, add a corresponding language key pair to your language file:

mentions:notification_types:object:<object_type> mentions:notification_types:annotation:<annotation_name>

Object fields scanned for mentions

Use 'get_fields','mentions' hook to expand the scope of scanned fields beyond object title and description. The hook receives entity and expects and array of fields in return.

Replacement of mentions with anchors

To add a view which should be scanned for @mentions and replaced with an anchor, use 'get_views', 'mentions' hook.

mentions's Issues

autocomplete for usernames is broken

i am not able to get the autocomplete dropdown box to render in any of my sites (1.12.x). if i type a @ symbol followed by some characters i see no dropdown. i have tested with my theme disabled and with/without tinyMCE and the result is the same in all cases.

every group member receive email notification when only mention one member in group discussion reply

I have created a group and set the group email notification to be on by default when the user joins the group. When I mentioned only one group member in the group discussion reply, every member in the group get email notified saying: 'admin mentioned you in a group discussion reply.'.

I have tried in group blog reply, group news reply and other content types and this issue doesn't appear. It seems it only happens in group discussion reply. I tried to disable my custom theme and use elgg default theme but the issue persists.

Picking a name from the dropdown doesn't focus back to CKEditor

Also the dropdown should also be picked via keyboard up and down.

Request to include @screenname

I have a lot of users that have a different screen name from their username, and in many cases I dont' know the username. It would be great if the mention of a screenname also triggered this plugin, This is a really great idea! one of my favorites, I hope you include it in an upcoming elgg release!

add transifex support

• Plugin needs to be listed with the elgg organization in transifex
• some build script needs to be added to fetch the transations from transifex

move to core

I believe this plugin should be part of the core set plugins.

i am seeing 3 notifications when i am mentioned in a wire post

i just saw that i am receiving 3 separate email and notifier notifications when i am mentioned in a wire post.
1 comes from thewire_tools and uses the string: "You've been mentioned on the wire"
1 is the default notification for a friend posting a wire post
1 appears to be from either mentions or notifier and uses the string: "%s mentioned you in %s"

there is only a need for 1 notification for this action and i think it should just be the last one from the mentions plugin.

Could not save mentions settings.

Getting a red Could not save mentions settings when selecting check box in settings, notifications and saving.

Ajax edit problem

Mention creates <a herf"">@Username but when edit something using ajax its shows :

"<a herf"">@Username This is comments"

Mentions should show a

"@Username This is a comments"

Also check thewire_tools

Evan, you should also check the following plugin:
https://github.com/ColdTrick/thewire_tools

It has mentions but also hashtag support, username and hashtag autocomplete and thewire search capabilities...

An Elgg 1.8 version will arrive in 1 month

the name in the auto-fill/suggestion has become non-clickable.with Elgg 1.9.6

Whenever we are starting to type a name, a suggested name appears and clicking on it fills the textbox with that name. But with Elgg 1.9.6 ( fresh install, and no other extra plugins, only default plugins on) and master github version of "mentions" this is no longer happening - the name in the auto-fill/suggestion has become non-clickable.

If the name is manually typed, the name appears but it is not hyper-linked to the user profile.
Will a working 1.9.6 version be released any time soon?

Convert @username to link 2 profile before passing to the river possible?

Hi Brett, just as a question/idea, would it be possible to convert to link to user's profile before creating the river message? I think that this would both avoid confusion in users reading the river and seeing @username then the display name in the real post and links to users profiles could be clickable directly from the river itself.
Cheers!

Some notifications seem not to be sent but links to profiles are ok

Hi Brett, this is a great functionality which imho deserves to be added to core.
Everything works fine, only some, following, notifications seem not to be sent (all others ok) while all mentions are correctly converted to links to profiles:

• Pages' main content for both creation and editing
• Blogs' main content editing only (creation ok)

As always thank you so much for your work
Cheers

Get the user icon / hover menu working for fancy links option.

Receiving messages about mentions that do not mention me...

could be the comments are already deleted... but i got to in the thread on the comment that stated we added mentions :)

Add setting to disable autocomplete

user icons for mentioned usernames only appear if blog comment is edited

1. enable the admin option to show images for mentioned users.
2. write a blog comment that includes a mentioned name.
3. save the comment.
   result-> the user icon is not displayed (even when the page is refreshed).

if i edit an existing comment and then save the edit, then the user icon is displayed correctly.

How do I hyperlink @name to profile page within widgets?

In activity widget (in profile page, for example) or plugin widgets (hypewall, for example) I do not get @NAMEs hyper-linked to profile pages. Using Mentions and Elgg 1.9.6

Typo on settings page

Says Replce

@username is not converted to hyperlinked user name in river/activity

@username is not converted to username, hyperlinked to profile, in the activity stream or river.

mention in comment should link to comment and not to entity

Insert link client side instead of parsing @syntax server-side

Pros:

• Author can modify link text
• Can mention any other entity on the site, not just users
• Less server-side parsing required
  • performance benefit
  • Issues #17 and #12 go away automatically
• <a> tags are part of a standard. @mentions are not.
• We already need to solve the broken-link problem, so this just makes it easier for people to link to things.
• There's a handy library for it ( https://github.com/ichord/At.js )

Cons:

• Links break. Server-side parsing means they could be kept up-to-date or auto-removed.
• ECML could give us the best of both worlds

NB: I say "instead of" but that just means going forward. We'd still need to support server-side @mention for BC, I'm sure.

Votes

In favor of storing the full link to the mentioned entity (<a href>...</a>):

• Evan
• Steve

In favor of just storing @mention:

• Juho
• Matt

Upgrade Request : Elgg 1.9.6 version please

Much need plugin in social context. Please release an 1.9.6 version.

Integrate parser & unit tests

https://gist.github.com/mrclay/3a08e5edf79875f66962

Mentions notifications being sent to everyone?

I'm getting notifications from the community about mentions where I'm not the person who was mentioned.

More extensibility hooks

• for rewriting the user
• for rewriting view if user not found
• for altering the regex

Make notification settings consistent

Notification settings for mentions are not consistent with other notification settings. Please add a section on the Notifications setting page for mentions with checkboxes for email and message notifications. Preferably the default is set to TRUE for both email and message.