Tag other users

[Laurel Ghosh Roy]

I seem to remember a way to tag other users, teams, or spaces within a Confluence page, can anyone tell me how to do this? 

I think you can link, or tag, but I think they were two different things. 

We are looking to create an entire documentation system for our team (processes, templates, definitions, product info, etc) and we want to be able to talk other users or groups of users into certain pages. 

[Zak Laughton]

Hi Laurel!

I understand you have some questions about linking/tagging other users, teams and spaces. There are a number of options available for this kind of functionality. I'll put a quick overview of the functionality for users, teams, and spaces below, but feel free to let me know if you have any specific questions about your use case:

• Users
  • Mentions let you tag someone in a page or comment, similar to tagging in an Instagram or Facebook caption. Just type "@", then the persons name to mention them. Once mentioned, they will receive an in-app notification, and their profile will be linked from where they were mentioned.
  • Share pages with other users to send them an in-app notification and an email linking to the shared page.
• Teams
  • You can create a space for individual teams. The Team Space space template is excellent for this, and sets up permissions according to the team.
  • You can also add your team to a Confluence group. Groups are useful for setting group permissions, and can also be used when sharing pages as with individual users.
• Spaces
  • You can link to a space similar to how you would link to a page. In the editor go to Link > Search or type an open square bracket [ to open the link generator. When you search for a space you, will see a list of results grouped by pages, blogs, people, and spaces. You can select the space by choosing the option with the "2 papers" icon next to it ("Banana Stand", in the screenshot below). When the page is saved, this link will direct users to the homepage of that space.
    

I hope this helps!
-Zak

[Laurel Ghosh Roy]

Weird, I feel like I was remembering specific ways to "link" and "tag" people from within editing a page. But I think maybe the @mentioning should do the trick. 

Can you @mention a team?

[Zak Laughton]

The @-mentioning should do the trick. This will essentially link and tag that user from the page.

Unfortunately, there is not a way to mention teams or groups in Confluence pages, but we do have a feature request open for this functionality: CONFCLOUD-23015. You can vote and comment on this feature request to help give our developers more context around the issue, which will be considered according to the Implementation of New Features Policy.

For now, the best way to link to a team is to create a page link to their team home page or space, and the best alternative to tagging them is to tag each user individually. If the intention is to share a page with the team, you can also share the page with that team's group (if they have one).

[Laurel Ghosh Roy]

Perfect, thanks!

[Deleted user]

Hi there - same question but for Jira with the new dashboard. It seems that I can't tag others users...

Could you please help?