Modify the tagging behavior in NodeBB

[Vijay-Kumavat]

Hi

In Harmony Theme, how can I change the tagging functionality. right now its take user-slug / username. I should take fullname of the user. Actually in my project user’s fullname is automatically added while registering to forum.

[phenomlab]

@Vijay-Kumavat Are you referring to the user assigned at registration?

[Vijay-Kumavat]

@phenomlab ,

Yes i did this now at the time of user registering it takes fullname with current-time.

Before this it takes

email : abc@xyz.com
username : abc-xyz-com
fullname : abc def.

Now i set it to :

email : abc@xyz.com
username : abc-def-2343423423
fullname : abc def.

This is fine for now.

Now, I want do this with already registered users. Because while tagging user by someone its display user email

[phenomlab]

@Vijay-Kumavat So do you want to tag by email, or by display name?

[Vijay-Kumavat]

By display Name

[phenomlab]

@Vijay-Kumavat I think an extension to nodebb-plugin-mentions would be necessary for this to work. If you look at /admin/plugins/mentions you’ll see the available options.

[Vijay-Kumavat]

i dint found in admin/plugins/mentions. But in nodebb-plugin-mentions-> library.js Then after i got result like this. Ref. below image.

I need to do like this . Ref. below image

[phenomlab]

@Vijay-Kumavat So is this now working based on modifications you’ve made to library.js ?

[Vijay-Kumavat]

@phenomlab yes but only in post preview section only. before submitting post in post section its shows me email-id.

how to replace this with fullname only. ( Also in autocomplete dropdown)

[phenomlab]

@Vijay-Kumavat This is likely best answered by the NodeBB core devs themselves. This will require an additional feature which extends the mentions plugin.

[phenomlab]

For anyone else following this thread

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17402/change-in-reply-to-xxxx-text

And

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/f2152953cddd3247746ef393516b0a53ba7750a4