Is there a way to search based on a specific @Mention? For example, find all pages that have used "@John Doe" as a mention.
A search macro for @mentions would be nice!
Hi Chad,
We don't really have a good way of doing this right now. Can I ask why this is important to you?
We are creating pages in confluence, one for each deliverable in our product. As we are defining the page (as a small group of people) we are adding @Mentions in the pages as a way of identifying subject matter experts (from the larger group of people). This is convenient because we can associate some people with the content and they get emailed as a heads-up. Later on we would like to run some reports (searches) based on subject matter experts to see which deliverables they are associated with.
I think this will be a big time saver when we start turning our deliverables into JIRA tasks and making formal assignments.
With the SQL plugin, I have been able to pull a list of my pages that contain a specific string in the content. I wonder if you could do the same thing, where you create a table and just do a sql query for the SME field, returning the name there in your query output.
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I think if we were to go through this much work we may instead investigate writing a search plug-in macro for @Mentions.
I know it's been a while since this question was asked. But I'm looking for a solution to this problem as well. Any news on this?
I could use this; we have a user that we want to find all mentions of so we can update it to the proper account.
I just searched for @username and it seems to have worked. Not 100% certain, though.
This could be working indeed!
But as Tom pointed out, I'm not a 100% sure either. Does a search for @username really search for mentions only? Or are there hits in the results where only the username (without being specifically being a mention) is on a page?
Thanks guys. But not really working. I just created a new page with a raw username on it (not an @mention). I can gaurantee that the username was not searchable before adding it to the page (just created the user).
A search for @username returned the search result for the raw username. So, it appears the search field is ignoring the '@' notation.
hi there
i could not find "Add a filter" link on left sidebar in our Confluence cloud instance
This filter does not appear in the new version. Please use (YOURINSTANCE).atlassian.net/wiki/dosearchsite.action address to use this filter. So change the URL on the browser manually.
Hi! This doesn't work for me. Following that link brings me to the normal search page. There is no such function as "mentioning user"
There seems to be some redirect in place XXX.atlassian.net/wiki/search?redirect=true
this is broken! in 2020!?!
There's a workaround if filtering by:comment ~ "user_id" ORDER BY updated DESCWhere user_id is found in the URL when going to your Jira Profile screen. (Click on your profile image on the top-right corner).
Is there no solution still even now? this would be really handy so we can resolve all items where our names have been mentioned. ...the thread seemed to have started 9 years ago.... did any one find a solution??
Confluence Server 7.11.1:
I just tried to enter in the Search and it worked well:
@username
Remember to select a Type as Page in this case.
Seems like a lot of people are looking for this feature for the same reason we are. We designate a username as the page owner/subject matter expert, and we would like a way to easily see all the pages in which that person's username appears. We are on cloud. Even if the search feature worked (it doesn't seem to) then that wouldn't be helpful/practical for most of our users.
Bump - this would be incredibly useful for my organization as well.
In Confluence a mention of a user is referring to their user-id. So in order to search for them you have to search for their user-id. Then you will get all pages where they are mentioned. You can find their user-id by going to their profile and look at the url, the user-id is displayed there.
Thank you Nils, this worked for me with Confluence Cloud.
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