Can't tag some members in a post?

[John Mc]

I've noticed that I am unable to tage some members in a post.

For example, I was trying to tag Old Greenhorn. When I type in "@Old" a few suggested member names pop up, but they are alphabetical, but only the first 10 users show up. Old Greenhorn is not on the list. As soon as I type the space in his username, the tagging function shuts down. If I type the rest of his username, I just get plain text, with no tagging.

I know you've got a lot on your plate at the moment. This one is not really a priority, but I thought I'd mention it while I was thinking of it.

[rusticretreater]

Confirmed.  I'm sure it has something to do with the space in the name.  The code loads the names, but apparently only considers the next ten names.  Since there are more than 10 users with old[space] in their names, the software goes no further.  Maybe a configuration thing, maybe a modification to the parsing code is needed.  Maybe Jeff dealt with this earlier.

[Old Greenhorn]

John, your tag actually did work just fine. It's one of those faith based things. If you type the username correctly, it will work, it just doesn't give you any feedback. I did get and alert when you made that post but wanted to wait until this morning to respond. SO the answer is, ignore those prompts and just type the username correctly and fully and it will work. Go back to that post and hover over the tag and you will see it light up or whatever.
 I'll reply to that post when I finish my second cup of coffee. @John Mc

[thecfarm]

As you know now @John Mc it works.
But no way to know until you post it, and then it's clickable and will be underlined if you hover over it with the mouse.
Your user name did the same thing. Not enough room for them all.
Must be the space. My user name works fine as I type. 

[John Mc]

Thanks, all!

[Magicman]

This subject prompted me to post my concerns about the @ notifier a couple of weeks ago.  In the old forum the function was sorta underlined giving the verification that it notified.  That underline is no longer there, but if you use the "Preview", you will see brackets and know that the notifier worked.

[thecfarm]

No brackets when I preview. It's underlined on this desk top.

[Magicman]

Let me test again @thecfarm.

OK now the brackets are gone so there is no indication to me that you were notified.  I am on a laptop.   I see that after I post, there is an indication. 

[Old Greenhorn]

Lynn, if you look at the post after it is posted and hold your cursot over the @ notification, you will clearly see it did work just fine.

[Magicman]

Which is what I just said.  No indication until after the reply is posted.

[WELumberjack]

I'm new at trying to tag people; but I did notice that one shouldn't use parentheses before and after the "at" symbol as I tried in one of my recent posts, or the tagging feature doesn't work. Typing "@" and the full username exactly as it appears without or with spaces should work. I looked in the "help" link at the bottom of the page and didn't find anything else. I also looked at the Tiny Portal and Simple Machines links and searching for "tagging" doesn't bring up anything recent, but I'm not that computer savvy.