How to link people in posts?

[frankluzat]

Hi,

I know that I can use the @ character to mention other members in my post to catch their attention for my topic.

But often times there are multiple accounts for the same name:

So what I do is I create one link for each person found with that name and save my post.

Then I open the links and edit my post to remove the wrong links.

I'm sure you can come up with a better solution, but I didn't find it yet. Please help!

[Laszlo_B · Accepted solution]

Hello Frank,

I tend to use the full URL of the user's page to link to people.

For example, http://scn.sap.com/people/frankluzat would translate to http://scn.sap.com/people/frankluzat.

Ugly solution, but it works for me...

Best regards,

Laszlo

[frankluzat · Accepted solution]

This is ok for me.

But it would be better to show the profile picture and/or the profile url in the @ search box. That could help to identify people

[Laszlo_B · Accepted solution]

Hello Frank,

I am not sure how much of a help it is, but there is also a Labeling solution:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-27231.

Personally I don't use this feature so I'm not sure whether this will be actually useful for you (especially that this only works for people you know, not for "all kind of" people), but perhaps it worth a shot...

Best regards,

Laszlo