How to disable the @ when mentioning someone?

Amt für Informatik Kt.Schwyz June 10, 2015

Read the Title please smile

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Mallmann
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June 10, 2015

Hey there,

I don't believe you can remove the @ sign from this functionality since that's how the plugin is activated.

You might be able to do it by modifying the plugin code, maybe. This plugin is located under <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/atlassian-bundled-plugins and it's called confluence-mentions-plugin-1.9.12.jar or similar to this, depending on the version. smile

 

Eduardo

 

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Norbert Janssens June 10, 2015

Cited from https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Mentions:

"The functionality is provided by a plugin called the 'Confluence Mentions Plugin'. If you need to remove the user mention functionality from your site, you can disable the plugin. See Disabling or Enabling a Plugin."

 

Amt für Informatik Kt.Schwyz June 10, 2015

I don't want to remove the mention functionality compleatly, just the @-sign. So instead of @surname lastname, just surname lastname. Is that possible?

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June 11, 2015

It's very different from how mentions work now. Basically you would have to continuously parse all the text looking for usernames. Using an @ char tells Confluence to start doing this. I know Facebook does it when you type someone's name though.

Amt für Informatik Kt.Schwyz June 11, 2015

I got that but if you type @ in the Editor and choosse somebody it appears like that: surname lastname. And if you after editing press the Save button and then it appears on the page like @surname lastname. Now I want to remove the @ on the page.

bgoodr March 14, 2018

@Amt für Informa: I got an answer specifically to part of your comment:

I don't want to remove the mention functionality compleatly, just the @-sign.

See: How to remove @ from showing in names in Confluence?

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