Commit fcae6108 authored by Coung Ngo's avatar Coung Ngo Committed by Marcin Sedlak-Jakubowski

Update mentions autocomplete user documentation

Add docs for full name search in mentions autocomplete.
parent 85090818
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group: Source Code
info: "To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments"
type: reference
description: "Autocomplete chars in Markdown fields."
description: "Autocomplete characters in Markdown fields."
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# Autocomplete characters **(FREE)**
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/36705) in GitLab 13.9: you can search using the full name in user autocomplete.
The autocomplete characters provide a quick way of entering field values into
Markdown fields. When you start typing a word in a Markdown field with one of
the following characters, GitLab progressively autocompletes against a set of
......@@ -58,3 +60,6 @@ popup now only includes users where `le` appears in their username, or a word in
their name.
![Popup list which includes users whose username or name contains the string](img/autocomplete_characters_example2_v12_0.png)
You can also search across the full name to find a user.
To find `Rosy Grant`, even if their username is for example `hunter2`, you can type their full name without spaces like `@rosygrant`.
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