I’m not sure this is an actual bug or if anything can easily be done about it, but in our community we ran afoul of a behavior that is unexpected. Many members work offline on posts, then copy/paste them from e.g. google docs into discourse. In most cases, the formatting and syntax transfers correct…

If I’m right about what I think is happening, this doesn’t really seem specific to Google Docs, but rather a workflow problem. When you have a group mention (e.g. @staff) it gets baked with a link to the group’s URL. So what seems to be happening is they’re copying the rendered post instead of the …

This is a message with an @tobiaseigen mention, written in google docs. I am going to paste it into a post and see what happens. :rocket: Hmm.. you are right. I will check in with colleagues on their workflow. Maybe they can show me the google doc they use. The main issue is that we have some an…

OK - thanks @supermathie I can confirm this is a workflow problem not a functionality problem. Nicely diagnosed! :seedling: And appreciate the time taken to help figure it out. Many thanks. Here’s what the google doc source looks like - and the @ mention is a fully baked hyperlink. So someone most…

I guess you’re set @tobiaseigen ? :smiley:

Copy paste from google docs breaks @ mentions

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supermathie (Michael Brown) April 1, 2021, 8:52pm 6

I guess you’re set @tobiaseigen?

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Copy paste from google docs breaks @ mentions

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