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Linking to Personal Spaces and User Profiles

Added by Vidya Madabushi, last edited by Rosie Jameson on Jun 17, 2007  (view change)
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You need to edit in 'Wiki Markup' mode to create a link to a user's personal space (or user profile).

You can link to a user's personal space (or user profile) easily if you know their username.

To link to a user's personal space,

What you need to type What you will get
[~username]
username

If the user does not have a personal space, then the link will go to their user profile.

RELATED TOPICS

User Profile Overview
Setting up your Personal Space
Working with Links

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Comments (8)

 

  1. Dec 18, 2006

    Charlie Perry says:

    How do I link to news within a user's space from another space?

    How do I link to news within a user's space from another space?

  2. Jan 05, 2007

    Narayan Nayar says:

    As far as I can tell, Charlie, this can't be done. News seems to be limited to o...

    As far as I can tell, Charlie, this can't be done. News seems to be limited to one-space (there is no spacekey parameter on the blog-posts tag). Maybe there's a way which isn't documented?

  3. Feb 23, 2008

    Anonymous says:

    On a slightly different note, after 4 hours searching the doco and googling, it ...

    On a slightly different note, after 4+ hours searching the doco and googling, it appears something as simple as displaying the logged in userid/username is impossible. All I want is to display the name/id, no links or anything "special".
    Is this possible and it's just I haven't learnt how to read the doco???

    As I say 4+ hours and I started my programming in 1981 on mainframe assembler. I would have thought this was a simple variable/macro????

    1. Feb 23, 2008

      David Peterson says:

      It may be slight overkill if you just want the username, but you can use the Rep...

      It may be slight overkill if you just want the username, but you can use the Reporting Plugin to do that. Try this: {report-info:global:current user > name} or {report-info:global:current user > full name}.

    2. Feb 23, 2008

      Bob Swift says:

      Some other solutions: # RUN9

      Some other solutions:

      1. RUN-9 is an enhancement to the Run Plugin that does what you want.
      2. Create a simple user macro {current-user} and follow information from this comment

  4. May 09

    Anonymous says:

    What settings do I need to change in order to link from the username on a page d...

    What settings do I need to change in order to link from the username on a page directly to a profile? At the moment, the page information (Added by John Smith, last edited by Mary Smith) just displays the contributor name that isn't a link. I've tried searching for the answer but to no avail so would appreciate any help!

    Thanks!

  5. Aug 06

    Ajay Ahuja says:

    This command doesn't seem to work for any of my team members but it works for my...

    This command doesn't seem to work for any of my team members but it works for my me. Any ideas why this is happening.

    1. Aug 07

      Ming Giet Chong says:

      Hi Ajay, Do your team members able to see the expected result from your working...

      Hi Ajay,

      Do your team members able to see the expected result from your working machine? I would suggest you to raise a support ticket at https://support.atlassian.com for further investigation. Thanks.

      Regards,
      MG

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