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Autocomplete usernames when cosing private message

rnmartinez
Participant

@rnmartinez

8 years, 4 months ago

Sorry if this apoears twice 🙂 connectivity issues

Lets say I want to compose a PM to user Jenn. Once I type in Je, is there a way to see suggestions for users with names that start with Je, or is there a way to add a directory/address book? Thanks

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David Cavins
Keymaster

@dcavins

8 years, 4 months ago

That’s the default behavior. If you’re not getting a list of matches, open your browser console to see what’s going wrong with the AJAX request that fetches the list of matches.

Note that if you type the @ symbol, you won’t find matches, so just start typing the username or display name.

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

8 years, 4 months ago

Assuming there are no errors on your site….
afaik, the auto-complete only handles friends by default. So if you aren’t friends with ‘Jenn’, you won’t see a suggestion.

To turn on auto-complete for all users, put this in bp-custom.php :
define( 'BP_MESSAGES_AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL', true );

rnmartinez
Participant

@rnmartinez

8 years, 4 months ago

Thanks so much! I believe these were both helpful hints.

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