Redmine

The current version of Redmine does not have a mentioning feature. Are you talking about a plugin that provides the feature?

Hello Maeda San!

I don't think we've installed any plugin such as https://www.redmine.org/plugins/redmine-mentions. I found #4179#note-41 and #13919#note-37 that you have already been in a loop, and both patches look already implemented for master.
(See https://github.com/redmine/redmine/blob/master/app/helpers/application_helper.rb#L1134)

That's why I thought the feature has been already in production. What do you think?

Kenta Kogumasaka wrote:

I don't think we've installed any plugin such as https://www.redmine.org/plugins/redmine-mentions. I found #4179#note-41 and #13919#note-37 that you have already been in a loop, and both patches look already implemented for master.
(See https://github.com/redmine/redmine/blob/master/app/helpers/application_helper.rb#L1134)

Thank you for the detailed information. I understood. My understanding is that "mention" means the link to user feature (#4179) and you cannot make a link to a user if you use uppercase characters. Is it correct?

Yes, it's more or less correct. Strictly speaking, we cannot make a link to a user account that has uppercase character(s). Here is some examples:

The accounts that consist of lowercases only can be linked if using @<username> with lowercases.
Thousands of accounts in our Redmine have been imported with LDAP Sync, and I don't feel it would be practical to replace all uppercases to lowercases in the "users" table.

Instead of User.visible.where(:login => name, :type => 'User').first, we should probably use User.visible.find_by_login(name) to find the user in ApplictionHelper#parse_redmine_links. Here, we already perform a fallback to a case-insensitive match if necessary.

Let me check if that does it...

Danke schön, Holger!