https://www.question2answer.org/qa/tag/user-mentions Powered by Question2Answer https://www.question2answer.org/qa/66929/new-premium-plugin-dm-dynamic-mentions <p>As I usually do, I'd like to compare Q2A with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://StackOverflow.com">StackOverflow.com</a>, which is the kind of platform I believe Q2A should aim to become, and try to see what makes it better to steal some ideas. Clearly, user mentions, in the form of <span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace"><strong>@user</strong></span></span>, with a UI-friendly solution came up so I decided to create a nicely looking plugin that would take care of this.</p> <p>This should sum everything up:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitbucket.org/repo/x8x6e9X/images/3015656445-1.gif"><img alt="" src="https://bitbucket.org/repo/x8x6e9X/images/3015656445-1.gif"></a></p> <p>The animated sequence shows how typing an <span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace"><strong>@</strong></span></span> character followed by a couple of additional characters triggers the display of a popup to select users. The admin can configure this popup to be filled with only the users involved in the question thread or every user in the site.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://bitbucket.org/repo/x8x6e9X/images/4111031239-2.png"></p> <p>Mentioning a user not only creates a link to the user's profile but also can notify them about the mention. The admin can configure two kinds of notifications. One is an email notification. The other one is a notification by means of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://github.com/q2apro/q2apro-on-site-notifications">On-Site Notifications</a> plugin. This notification system is very useful when trying to involve other users into a thread.</p> <p>One additional feature that is worth mentioning is that the admin can set a minimum user level that will be allowed to create mentions to other users. That way the admin can restrict the feature just to Editors and above.</p> <p>Here is a complete list of features:</p> <ul> <li>Easily transform a username into a clickable link when writing a post (mention)</li> <li>Users can be selected from a popup list of matched users</li> <li>An additional user field can be displayed in the popup (e.g. the full name of the user)</li> <li>Mentions can be used in questions, answers and comments</li> <li>Full and basic editors can be selected for each kind post</li> <li>On-Site Notifications plugin integration that allows receiving a notification to mentioned users</li> <li>The admin can choose to enable sending email notifications to mentioned users</li> <li>User permits can be configured to allow a minimum user level allowed to generate mentions</li> <li>Does not require any core hack and does not modify the core tables structure</li></ul> <p>If you are interested in reading more about the plugin you can check the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bitbucket.org/pupi1985/q2a-dynamic-mentions-public">plugin page</a>. There, you'll find some additional features and&nbsp;screenshots.&nbsp;<strong>This plugin is no longer under development as of 2025-07-16.</strong></p> Plugins https://www.question2answer.org/qa/66929/new-premium-plugin-dm-dynamic-mentions Wed, 05 Sep 2018 06:00:59 +0000