Mentioning All Members

gemhunter

Hi there,

I found some similar threads on this topic but nothing about my specific issue.

I noticed in the permissions tab (under administration) that there is a default 'Members' group. However this group can't be mentioned in a post. For example, when you type @Members nothing appears.

To get around this I created a new, separate Members group, I entered 'Member' in the singular section and 'Members' in the plural section.

I used the same icon from font awesome but I added a blue colour to help distinguish between the two Member groups in the admin panel. I then assigned every user to the new Members group and mentioned the group in a post to test it.

Strangely when I select the @Members tag in the post, it says "We could not find any user matching your search." It also seems to be tagging the default Members group and not the new Members group I made. I can delete the default Members tag and replace it with the new Members tag to show a list of users in the new Members tag. However, when I go back to the post and select Members I have the same problem where none of the members are listed and seemingly none of them are mentioned in the post.

Is there a way around this? Is this happening because I made a new tag and gave it the same name as the default Members tag?

I have screenshots to demonstrate what I mean but not sure how to add these to this post.

Any help is appreciated 🙂

ctml

gemhunter this is how I'm doing it today.

I create a default group, in my case I call it "Community Members"
Install auto moderator https://discuss.flarum.org/d/27306-flarum-automoderator
Create new criteria "Default Group" with one requirement, "email confirmed"
If not already done, make sure the flarum scheduler is setup to run https://discuss.flarum.org/d/24118-setup-the-flarum-scheduler-using-cron
All users are added to your default group, including existing users and you can now tag @Community Members

gemhunter

ctml Thanks very much, sounds like a good idea!

I did actually manage to fix it by renaming my group from 'Members' to 'name of forum Members'. I like your idea though.

Do you use Auto Moderator in conjunction with FoF Default Groups or does Auto Moderator replace it?

ctml

gemhunter it replaces it for me, the main advantage is it is retro-active so existing users get placed into the default group whereas FoF Default Groups I think only affects new users. If you don't have many users and can manually add the existing users to that default group then there is probably not much advantage to using auto-moderator to manage the group.