This section describes how to use the mention feature.
The mention feature is used to clarify who is the target for the added comments.
The comments added using the mention feature are also visible to other users.
This feature is useful in the following situations.

• When you need urgent attention from the users who receive too many update notifications to read new ones.
• When you want the users to read comments who disabled the notification or who are not the recipients of the notifications.

When specified as a recipient, "@ To me" notifications are displayed in the notification list in addition to regular update notifications.

You can use this feature in the comment field of the following applications.
Users, organizations, and roles can be specified as recipients.

• Space discussions
• Scheduler¹
• Messages

Specify the recipient of the comment.

1. Display the comment field of applications where you can use the mention feature.

2. Click "@Mention" to display the recipients field.

   

3. Enter the user name in the recipient field and specify the recipients.

   

   When you start entering the recipient information, the suggestions for recipients are displayed.

   • If the recipient is a user:
     • Name
     • Localized display names
     • Pronunciation
     • Login name
     • E-mail address
   • If the recipient is an organization:
     • Organization name data
     • Localized display names
   • If the recipient is a role:
     • Group (role) name

4. Confirm the specified recipients and the display order.

   You can change the order of recipients by drag and drop.
   
   You can delete the specified recipients by mousing over the specified recipients and clicking .

5. Enter a comment and click "Post".

Mention feature requires you to specify the recipients from the suggestions based on the characters you entered.

Addresses that are not specified correctly, such as users who do not have accounts in Garoon, are deleted from the input field and cannot be used as the recipients.

You will be notified when you are mentioned using one of the following.

• Name
• Organizations you belong to
• Roles that you have set

Notifications that you have mentioned yourself are not notified.

Notifications is an application that allows you to check notifications on updates for each application.
By writing a comment by mentioning the recipient, the users specified as the recipients can filter only the notifications addressed to them in the list.
For details on the Notifications, refer to the explanation on checking the notifications.

If your system administrator or users have set up the "Notifications" portlet in the portal, you can check the notifications on the top page.
For details of the Notifications portlet, refer to Notifications Portlet.