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| Like many other modern social networks, Friendica uses a special notation inside messages to indicate “tags” or contextual links to other entities. | Like many other modern social networks, Friendica uses a special notation inside messages to indicate “tags” or contextual links to other entities. | ||
| - | **Mentions** | + | ===== Mentions |
| People are tagged by preceding their name with the @ character. | People are tagged by preceding their name with the @ character. | ||
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| If you sort your contacts into groups, you cannot @-mention these groups. But you can select the group in the access control when creating a new posting, to allow (or disallow) a certain group of people to see the posting. See [[: | If you sort your contacts into groups, you cannot @-mention these groups. But you can select the group in the access control when creating a new posting, to allow (or disallow) a certain group of people to see the posting. See [[: | ||
| - | **Topical Tags** | + | ===== Topical Tags ===== |
| Topical tags are indicated by preceding the tag name with the # character. This will create a link in the post to a generalised site search for the term provided. For example, %%#cars%% will provide a search link for all posts mentioning ‘cars’ on your site. Topical tags are generally a minimum of three characters in length. Shorter search terms are not likely to yield any search results, although this depends on the database configuration. The same rules apply as with names that spaces within tags are represented by the underscore character. It is therefore not possible to create a tag whose target contains an underscore. | Topical tags are indicated by preceding the tag name with the # character. This will create a link in the post to a generalised site search for the term provided. For example, %%#cars%% will provide a search link for all posts mentioning ‘cars’ on your site. Topical tags are generally a minimum of three characters in length. Shorter search terms are not likely to yield any search results, although this depends on the database configuration. The same rules apply as with names that spaces within tags are represented by the underscore character. It is therefore not possible to create a tag whose target contains an underscore. | ||