POST api/v2.0/Contacts/SearchContactsForMentions?searchText={searchText}&maxCount={maxCount}

Provides Contact search results to be used for adding @Mention functionality to Content.

Request Information

URI Parameters

NameDescriptionTypeAdditional information
searchText

Requires a minimum of 3 characters to perform a search.

string

Required

maxCount

Number of results to return. If not included, will default to 10 results.

integer

Default value is 10

Body Parameters

None.

Response Information

Resource Description

Contact search result fields, including the markup necessary to include an @Mention of a given contact.

Collection of ContactMentionSearchResult
NameDescriptionTypeAdditional information
LinkToProfile

Url link to this Contact's Profile page in the Community site.

string

None.

PictureUrl

Url link to this Contact's small Profile Picture.

string

None.

ContactKey

Unique Identifier for this Contact.

globally unique identifier

None.

DisplayName

Calculated Display name.

string

None.

EmailAddress

Contact's email address.

string

None.

IsMentionable

True only if this Contact can be used in an @mention.

boolean

None.

ContactMentionMarkup

Provides the markup that can be added to the text of a Discussion Post to automatically add an @Mention for this Contact. Will be returned as an empty string if this result cannot be mentioned (IsMentionable will also be false).

string

None.

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample:
[
  {
    "LinkToProfile": "sample string 1",
    "PictureUrl": "sample string 2",
    "ContactKey": "a82548c0-3ddf-413a-a6ef-d72208dfcda7",
    "DisplayName": "sample string 4",
    "EmailAddress": "sample string 5",
    "IsMentionable": true,
    "ContactMentionMarkup": "sample string 7"
  },
  {
    "LinkToProfile": "sample string 1",
    "PictureUrl": "sample string 2",
    "ContactKey": "a82548c0-3ddf-413a-a6ef-d72208dfcda7",
    "DisplayName": "sample string 4",
    "EmailAddress": "sample string 5",
    "IsMentionable": true,
    "ContactMentionMarkup": "sample string 7"
  }
]

application/xml, text/xml

Sample:
<ArrayOfContactMentionSearchResult xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/HigherLogic.API.Models.Enterprise">
  <ContactMentionSearchResult>
    <ContactKey>a82548c0-3ddf-413a-a6ef-d72208dfcda7</ContactKey>
    <ContactMentionMarkup>sample string 7</ContactMentionMarkup>
    <DisplayName>sample string 4</DisplayName>
    <EmailAddress>sample string 5</EmailAddress>
    <IsMentionable>true</IsMentionable>
    <LinkToProfile>sample string 1</LinkToProfile>
    <PictureUrl>sample string 2</PictureUrl>
  </ContactMentionSearchResult>
  <ContactMentionSearchResult>
    <ContactKey>a82548c0-3ddf-413a-a6ef-d72208dfcda7</ContactKey>
    <ContactMentionMarkup>sample string 7</ContactMentionMarkup>
    <DisplayName>sample string 4</DisplayName>
    <EmailAddress>sample string 5</EmailAddress>
    <IsMentionable>true</IsMentionable>
    <LinkToProfile>sample string 1</LinkToProfile>
    <PictureUrl>sample string 2</PictureUrl>
  </ContactMentionSearchResult>
</ArrayOfContactMentionSearchResult>