I can only assume the Customize Mention Text action is not firing in time to be consumed by the create comment action, I’ve tried to add pauses with no luck.
Another small annoyance is that this plugin seems to make Bubble completely ignore the reset inputs action at the end of this worflow, which was working fine before I added this plugin. (you can see this in the capture)
I’m glad to hear that you like the Amazing Mention Tag.
The property definitions in the Mention Element look correct.
In the workflow screenshot you shared, I see that in step 1, you’re running the “Customize” action, and in step 2, the “Create a new thing” action. The problem might be arising here, and it seems you might have thought the same. To overcome this, in the relevant event, only run the “Customize” action. When this is executed, the “A Mention - Inputs Mention Text Customized” event will be triggered. You can then run the “Create a new thing” and other actions with this event. Here is a sample screenshot:
The working principle of “Reset relevant inputs” is as follows: It resets the values of inputs used in the actions preceding it. In your case, you are creating data using a state of the “Mention” element. Had you created it using the value of an input, it would have been reset. Therefore, what needs to be done here is to store the value of the relevant input somewhere. You can do this via a custom state. Create a new custom state and assign the value of the relevant input to this custom state right after the “Customize mention text” action. Then, run the “reset” action.
Please let me know if these steps resolve your issue after you have tried them.
This method works and tends to be more reliable, however if I fire off comments in quick succession I’m still getting the issue where the previous value is posted. This is a bit of an edge case, but this kind of robustness is a big deal for my app.
I’ve moved to incorporate @Thimo’s great Modern Rich Text Editor plugin instead, as it provides a mention system along with other features I was looking for.
I’ll miss the avatars that yours provides, but I’ll live with it
It’s not my intention to pull people away from this plugin by the way - I’m sure this will fit most people’s use cases - but wanted to share my experience in case someone stumbles across this post and is looking for a the same solution I am.
All the best with improving your plugin and thanks again for the help!
Is there any way to allow users to actually edit a comment, for instance, they’ve created using mentions? After said comment has been created, and they come back to the page to edit that comment, is there any way to detect the mentioned users in the original comment again + any removed/added mentions?
This would be needed to save which users are mentioned in the comment when saved subsequent times - the difference from the base/initial use case is that they will not be using the mentions selector to re-select previously added mentions, but we still need to account for whether they have been removed or not from the original comment.
You’ve touched upon an important aspect. Although the current version of the plugin does not have this function, I want to let you know that we are considering adding it to our roadmap. If we release an update regarding this development, I will make sure to keep you informed.
Hey @Efe
Amazing plugin indeed
I was wondering if you could make the symbol to trigger the plugin customizable i.e, not just @ but also #, +, / , etc (The symbols could be in a list for one to select)
Additionally, I was also interested in making the different symbols trigger different lists of other data types even in the same input, especially the rich text editor
Thanks.
Same issue here as @tmxl had. The previous value is posted unfortunately and there’s no way to reset it.
I tried some hacks but the value still stays in the plugin memory.
Is there a way to implement some reset function? @Efe
const div = document.getElementById('content-block-comments');
if (div) {
const textareas = div.querySelectorAll('textarea');
textareas.forEach(textarea => {
textarea.value = '@a';
// Set the timeout and store the timeout ID
const timeoutId = setTimeout(() => {
textarea.value = '';
clearTimeout(timeoutId); // Clear the timeout after it completes
}, 100);
});
}
Love the plugin you have built I think its super useful. I’ve built it into our chat feature and it works, but when you change channel (and the data source to a different list of users) its not updating the list the new list of users.
Do you have any tips on how to change the datasource to the plugin and have it show the new users, is there a way to reset the plugin element?
I filmed a quickly loom overview of the issue. The datasource has updated in the plugin but isn’t reflected in the dropdown
Hey @adam30 Take a look response I wrote couple of days ago. This was bothering me too but I ended up sunseting this plugin and going with another one.
No matter what you do, you won’t be able to reset plugin state because that’s handled inside the plugin login and unfortunately, doesn’t work very well – seems like. Last resort I had as an idea was to hard reset input/multiline input with javascript but that didn’t work also.
Other plugin I used is kinda limited and I would be really happy if @Efe can expose some update/reset function, I would navigate back to this plugin and be happy with the UI again.
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Unfortunately, I’ve been quite busy and haven’t had the chance to keep up with this thread. Thank you so much for all the kind words; it means a lot to me that you’re like the plugin. I understand your requests, and I’ll be working to match them at the first opportunity. While I don’t want to set any specific time just yet, I can say that a new update announcement is coming very soon. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
