What is the confluence source code for a user mention?

[Christopher Atterbury]

I am attempting to mention users with the new ability in Quarto to publish to Confluence. Quarto allows for raw Confluence blocks, so my plan is to put in the source code for mentioning particular users in there. I found that in the Resource Identifier section of the Confluence Storage Document page there is the "user" resource referenced with

<ri:user ri:userkey="2c9680f7405147ee0140514c26120003"/>

I replaced this with the appropriate user key, but could not get it to work properly with the @User_name text.

What is the raw confluence code that I should use for a user mention? Thanks!

[Andrii Maliuta · Accepted solution]

Hello @Christopher Atterbury ,

The page has several types of BODY representation and if you use final HTML, you should consider 'VIEW' representation:

```

<a class=\"confluence-userlink user-mention\" data-username=\"XXXX\" data-account-id=\"XXXX\" href=\"https://x.atlassian.net/wiki/people/XX?ref=confluence\" target=\"_blank\" data-linked-resource-id=\"98305\" data-linked-resource-version=\"1\" data-linked-resource-type=\"userinfo\" data-base-url=\"https://x.atlassian.net/wiki\">John Doe</a>

```

It is persisted in the database as STORAGE state:

<ac:link><ri:user ri:account-id="5d26e612590c9c0c25f78ee8" /></ac:link>

 but is rendered in HTML (VIEW) when viewing it in UI.

You can use REST API to get this data:

https://xx.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/1111?expand=body.view

https://xx.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/1111?expand=body.storage