I’ve pushed a new version of Alfresco Mention. It’s an add-on that gives users the ability to use @mentions to cause the specified user to be notified. The old version supported @mentions in document comments. The new version expands on that to also include discussion topics and replies.

The add-on still requires users to know the username of the user they are mentioning–there is nothing in the UI that will help them figure that out, like a pop-up or a typeahead or anything like that. If you want to add it, pull requests are welcome.

Even without the UI, multiple customers find this add-on handy. Instead of making a comment and then manually sending an email to let their co-worker know they’ve seen a document, for example, they just @mention them, and the add-on sends them a notification with a link to the item.

This add-on is known to work with 5.2 and 6.1, either Enterprise or Community.