CKEditor mentions

Overview

This module will provide integration with CKEditor mentions plugin which enables smart autocompletion based on user input, as we all know from systems Slack, Jira, or Facebook. Here is example.

The 3.x version is the active one, it only supports CKEditor5.

The 7.x-1.x version has a view support for customization but does not receive any more feature updates.

The 8.x-2.x version is not maintained anymore, it only supports CKeditor4.

Features

Provides a flexible plugin system for autocomplete. By default, there are User and Node plugins. Also, there is a plugin that adds support for realname module in the submodule.

It also provides event system that adds ability to react to mentions, suggestions.

The is a submodule that adds the ability to create mentioned entities if you need such a feature.

Requirements

The 3.x version does not have any external dependencies, apart from the CKEditor5 module that is in the core.

For the 7.x-1.x and 8.x-1.x:

• CKEditor module
• realname module
• This module was tested with CKEditor 4.1.

Related projects

The mentions module provides an text format input filter that translates @username or @uid strings to URL's. But it does not offer suggestions based on typed characters.

Credits

The Drupal 7 version of this module was written and maintained by Albert Skibinski (Merge) and sponsored by SIOB for the biebtobieb.nl project.

Credits goto Michele Wickham for the Drupal 8 port.