Ability to mention a Group

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Is there a way to mention an entire group in a post? Maybe I’m missing it, but I don’t see how you either do this or enable it (although there’s vague mention of this capability in another post https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-name-of-mentioned-group-inside-topics/16001). Thanks!

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There is a ghetto way to do it by enabling group expansion, but this means mentioning a group simply replaces your text with 25 distinct @name mentions. (Assuming the group had 25 members)

Can you describe the use case a little more clearly, with an example? The thing we worry about is people spamming large groups with group mentions.

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Ah, makes sense, thanks for the additional info! I’ve actually considered the issue of spamming so I totally understand the hesitation to roll out it ubiquitously across the platform.

The use case I’m looking at is:

  • multiple groups (organizations) are part of the Discourse community
  • these groups typically either communicate via one-off emails or listservs designed for specific cross-group mass communication
  • by replacing these ‘listservs’ with the Discourse community, it would be convenient for one person from one group to notify all of the members from another group

I suppose my counter question: 'If the use case is solved by alternatively forcing users of a group who wants to engage another group to assign the post to a category, is there a setting to send an email notification when a post is created AND set the permissions to that category to only those two groups?"

I know how to set permissions to a category via group, just not the first part of that question.

Thanks!

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Maybe what might make sense is to have each member of this group watch the category. Then they will get email notifications every time something happens in that category – if someone creates a new topic in that category, replies to a topic in that category, etc.

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@staff, @moderators, @admins ect. could be useful. Each group should have the option to disable @ mentions though.

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All of that already exists…

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I see now that this also works for custom groups. Does this not answer the OPs question as well?

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It does answer my question, solved!!!

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