Discourse Show Fullname in Mentions

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

@ImaCrea

Here’s what happens : I got this user whom username is “oli44” and fullname “Henri Oliver”. With your plugin it now displays “Henri Oliver” which is great adds better context. But then, let’s say then I’m another user who doesn’t know that “Henri Oliver” goes by the username “oli44” then how do I mention him in my post?

You just type @ followed by Henri Oliver. After confirming, @+username will be inserted into your post.

When searching, both the username and the full name are displayed.
Where is the problem?

@ImaCrea

Or maybe there’s a way your theme component could still show the username (for ex: @Henri Oliver (oli44)) so when I need to mention that person I know what to look for(?)

You can customize the rendering in a fork easily:

https://github.com/thoka/discourse-show-name-mentions/commit/003b64369c196f71fb76d4e6d8f81f46f4cc2672