How do you mention a username with a space character?

dan39

I have a Vanilla Forum for an Alumni group. So we've set up Vanilla to use "Firstname Lastname" as the user name. Unfortunately, I don't see a syntax to mention users with space characters.

Doing a mention for @Joe Smith @Joe-Smith or @Joe_Smith doesn't find the correct username. Is there a way to make this work?

(Sorry @Joe for using you for this example)

Davidis

Bump

Lincoln

Sorry, answered this one on GitHub. Underscores are allowed, so that won't work. Hyphens are a bad idea in case they become allowed or someone modifies the filter to allow them. Given that Vanilla 2 won't allow spaces in names, my suggestion is to strip spaces and special characters from pre-existing usernames. Even if we came up with something workable (Joe*Smith?) it would be non-obvious - no one would be able to figure it out without being told, which seems counter to the Vanilla ethos.

Davidis

Actaully lincoln it does allow them or did.
I have a user who registered when i was running 2.0.7 back in july and he registered with a space.

Lincoln

Really? It definitely doesn't work currently. I wasn't aware of the filter having changed.

Tim

Imported users have been able to retain their spaces.

remouk

That's right. I imported my users and some have spaces in their usernames.

Also, there's a problem with special characters like é è à π ... Is it planned to handle these in mentions?

judgej

ProxyConnect also allows spaces in names supplied by the external CMS.

bobtheman

auto completion, like IRC's tab function would be great here, a much needed feature :)

sprockett

im also facing this problem...@sprockett

yu_tang

If user "Joe" and "Joe Smith" registered, comment lilke "@Joe Smith called." causes a little bit confused about auto link function.
Space, the final frontier...

amirm

Same issue. I need a workable First Last with exceptions for names like O'hara, or Mary-Anne instead of just 3-20 characters without spaces nor - . A tutorial would be a great help.