The Mentionables plugin lets you establish a custom mention dataset. Custom mentions work the same as @users or #categories, but use data external to discourse, including linking to external urls.
Currently google sheets is the only supported data source, however the plugin is designed to support any source. If you’d like to add a new source, please contact us.
Not currently. How are you thinking the filter would work in an abstract sense? You can estabilsh any external dataset as a mentionables set. Perhaps you can use an additional column in the data that informs how posts with custom mentionable data would be ordered. Then you’d also need to deal with situations where mutiple mentions were made in the same post. If you scoped out the feature in some detail in an abstract sense we could get a sense of how much it would take to implement it.
OK I’ve completed a couple of PR’s for this which get things back up and running:
Moves the API to Google’s official API, dropping an intermediary gem (and a few others) and adding CI so things should be a bit more reliable going forward.
Please note the breaking changes to settings:
mentionables_google_spreadsheet_url: “URL of the Google spreadsheet”
becomes:
mentionables_google_spreadsheet_id: “ID of the Google spreadsheet”
mentionables_google_worksheet_gids: “Restrict Google spreadsheet import to worksheet GIDs. If empty, all worksheets will be imported.”
becomes:
mentionables_google_worksheet_names: “Names of in-scope source worksheets (tabs)”
And there is a new setting:
mentionables_google_worksheet_max_row: “Maximum number of rows scanned”
It’s not suitable for @frold’s use case I suspect which is to present a financial graph rendered by a third party site. Mentionables is not intended for such a use case.
@frold there’s no code here for sharing third party graphs. This plugin is not going to help you. It’s purely designed to permit sites to allow users to search and recall from a list of products as grey bubbles that are links to each products page.
Before I go through the setup and config – would an appropriate use-case for mentionables be in writing of Topics which are drafts of legal documents which need to be able to include references to laws and cases, where the connected “mentionables” spreadsheet contains a collection of relevant legal references and case law?
OK here are my settings (I’m using the Test Data Google Sheet provided in the setup instructions), and the error I am getting… (apparently the plugin is broken, and the developer requires a fee? Which is fine, of course, just FYI!)
