Mention all users in a topic or post

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The discussion revolves around tagging all users or a specific group of users in a topic or post. akaryz inquires about the possibility of doing so, and Lilly responds that it is only possible if the users are part of an established group. However, Lhc_fl suggests using @here, which notifies users who have participated in the topic. This feature is available for TL2 users, but admins can adjust the settings.

akaryz tries using @here but is unable to see it in the autocomplete, and Lhc_fl suggests checking the site settings for here mention. Lhc_fl also mentions that @here only tags users involved in the topic.

Lhc_fl later realizes that @here might not meet akaryz’s needs and suggests using @trust_level_0 to tag all users on the site. However, this requires allowing the @ mention for this group first.

JammyDodger adds that increasing the max users notified per group mention setting would be necessary for this approach. Alternatively, creating an #announcements category or tag and setting it to ‘Watching First Post’ is a softer approach that allows users to opt out of notifications.

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Hi is it possible to tag all users or specific group of users in a topic/ post? something like @all @active @groupname

Thanks.

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as far as i know you can only do this if those users are part of an established group. if a topic is part of a category that only a specific group of users have access to, you can sort of accomplish this (unless you want to manually add posters of a topic to a group). tags can only be assigned to groups of users.

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Thanks Lilly.

So I can just create a group of all users… and allow to. tag the group name to notify them?

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Actually, you can simply use @here. (But it is only for TL2 (although Admin can adjust it in settings))

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Hi @Lhc_fl I am an admin and of course a LT3 but when I try to @here in one of the topic I cant see it in the autocomplete..

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My guess is that this should be the feature…

@here only brought me this hint

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As far as I know, admin can be any trust level, I don’t know the mechanism behind it

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hmm Okey means that @here will only tag users who involved in the topic..?

but still unable to do it btw

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What’s your sitesettings result of searching here mention ?

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Yes.
Oh no I just realized I seem to have misunderstood you. If you need to @ all users of the whole site, try @trust_level_0 (You need to allow you @ this group first)

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oh yes the @here function does this, for some reason i thought that did currently logged in users. thank you. shows how often i/we use it.

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@here seems to be only for users who participated in the post/topic..

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There’s also the max users notified per group mention setting you’d need to increase as well if you wanted to go down that route - default 100, though it can go quite high now:

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Though I think people have traditionally preferred creating an #announcements style category or tag and setting that as ‘Watching First Post’ in either default categories watching first post or default tags watching first post so people will get a notification of any topics/announcements that way. This is considered a softer approach and allows people to ‘opt out’ if they want to.