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User Mentions
When you are typing in the post editor, type the @ symbol and (at least) 3 (or more) characters, which are matched against users' display names, and you are presented with a list of one or more users:
After you select the desired user, their DNN avatar and a link to their user profile are inserted into the post:
When you are mentioned in a post, you will receive a DNN notification:
There is also a user option where you can disable/enable these notifications:
In the control panel, there is now a feature setting that lets you select the "editor" for each forum, forum group, or default for the module (remember that you can have forums inherit from groups, and groups inherit from module defaults, so you might only need to set this for the module defaults and it will flow downward):
This editor option is now the default for a new installation, and if you are upgrading, and it was previously set to Default DNN Editor, it will change to the new DNN CKEditor4 plus Forums plugins option.
Which user roles can mention other users in a post:

This module is the official forums module for DNN and is used on the official DNN CMS Community website.
- Forums
- Email Notifications
- Polls
- Categories
- Badges (new in 9.2)
- User Mentions (new in 9.3)
- Tags (enhanced in 9.4)
- Attachments (enhanced in 9.7)
- Site Map (new in 9.7/enhanced in 9.8)
- Entering HTML & XML
- Moderation
- Friendly URLs
- DNN Search Integration
- Templates
- Theme creation
- Tokens
- Avatar injection (new in 9.1)
- Recycle Bin (new in 9.1)