Add mentions for users, books, chapters

[tematema]

It will be great if BoockStack allows mentioning users/books/chapters within text inside the chapter with @ syntax.

For users: Sometimes we are writing some topics where other people experience is used / other users can share more information / you want to point to someone.

For chapters/books: Sometimes you want to point to some other book or chapter and have its name being inserted. Now you need to add a link and chose book/chapter through some additional 'window'.

I feel like it will be really handy if you can simply type @ and some pop-up menu will appear where you can choose anything which matches your input text like it made here.

[eXahostCOM]

This would be very nice. @ssddanbrown is this feature planned?

[Shultc]

I think it should be splited in two separate issues: User mention is not commanly needed feature. But Page/Chapter/Book mention is really important — currently after renaming I need to find each place with link this Page/.../.... and change text. It takes a lot of time.

This feature should be easely implemented, by using same system which is currently used for inserting parts of pages in other pages.

@ssddanbrown what is your opinion on this topic?

[ssddanbrown]

The original request desires book/chapter mention for easy insertion into pages. Just to advise, this can be alternatively achieved in the WYSIWYG editor via Ctrl+Shift+K / Cmd+Shift+K, which will show a selector for easy link insertion.

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@Shultc

currently after renaming I need to find each place with link this Page/.../.... and change text. It takes a lot of time.

Since BookStack v22.09, on a correctly configured system, BookStack will track internal references and auto-update links in content upon change. If you updated from a version before this, you should use the “Regenerate References” maintenance action to build the reference index.

[Shultc]

Since BookStack v22.09, on a correctly configured system, BookStack will track internal references and auto-update links in content upon change. If you updated from a version before this, you should use the “Regenerate References” maintenance action to build the reference index.

But it is not about link to the page. It is about page title in the link....

[cryptomilk]

User mentions would be really nice to have in comments.

[gbeine]

I support the "@" mentioning feature. There are a lot of cases with collaborative scenarios where this really improves teamwork.