The displaying of @-mentions should follow "Teammate Name Display" setting
We have a GitLab-Linked Mattermost Instance but our user database is an LDAP directory with alphanumeric keys as User-IDs. We cannot change our User IDs. While I know my user-id, I don't know anybody else's (and they don't know mine), so we get lost in conversations where people are mentioning alphanumeric user-ids back and forth.
Once the message is posted, the displaying of the mention should follow the Teammate Name Display setting. So instead of "Hi, @usr523", we should see "Hi, @Bob".
(Cross-Ref: https://github.com/mattermost/platform/issues/4640)
netmikey
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This feature shipped with v4.5 on December 16th.
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Erik-Jan Riemers commented
It is nice that the feature is shipped, but where do i set this? I still see userid's instead of names. I also see that ticket https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/7562 is still open, same for the reference ticket. Am i missing something?
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Philippe GRANET
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Mattermost announce "Plugin Support in Beta" : New plugins allow IT admins to deeply customize your experience by overriding key parts of the Mattermost user interface and server functions.
https://about.mattermost.com/blog/mattermost-4-4/
If someone can make a plugin and replace this line :
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-webapp/blob/master/components/at_mention/at_mention.jsx#L96
by something like :<a className='mention-link'>{'@' + user.username}</a>{'(' + user.first_name + ' ' + user.last_name + ')'}
I think it can do the job :)
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Anonymous
commented
Great idea !! We have the same problem here, it would help us a lot :)
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Stefan van Gastel
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We would really like to see this function as well. Having exactly the same issue and setup as netmikey.
Also requested this for Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/34131