The next operation does that within a link

< a href="<tmpl_var  pageUrl?op=sendPrivateMessage;uid=desiredUserId">

It only depends on what user you want people be able to send to, is it an id chosen by you? Fill in the userId

is it the ownerId>, I think the template variable <tmpl_var ownerUserId> exists but check that

same for creator of an asset, but I'm not sure whether that template var exists 

--- (Edited on 3/26/2008 11:12 am [GMT+0100] by bartjol) ---

Works! But not very convenient to use. The main problem is that you need to find out the user id first. It would be much nicer to have a macro that takes the username and does the rest. Thank you anyway.

BTW, are macros being processed within articles?

--- (Edited on 3/28/2008 3:27 pm [GMT-0500] by spunky) ---

I don't see how that would be a problem. If you are displaying a list of usernames somewhere you are probably allready using the userId to get to the username.

Where do you want to get the username from? 

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I do not intend to display a list of usernames. I was rather looking for a convient way of providing links to the mailbox of users within articles. Imagine a line like the following at the end of an article:

If you have further question, please, contact Bernd.

Then Bernd should provide a link to the personal Mailbox. Ideally, this could be realized using a macro in the following way:

If you have further questions, please, contact ^mailto(Bernd);.

Although, I know that usernames are not necessarily unique and may change, this should work in most cases. In addition, it is a lot more intuitive to use compared to inserting a link based on the user id.

The best solution would, of course, be to provide a special button within the editor similar to the "link webgui image" functionality.

--- (Edited on 4/6/2008 2:56 am [GMT-0500] by spunky) ---

It is probably possible to insert a link to message, but only to the user that created the article, not something like:

I don't really know, but Bernd might.

Where Bernd functions as a mailto link. This is also probably best in order not to be able to fill someone elses mailbox.
With a macro, you can probably extract that kind of information about the user that posted it, I'm working on a macro that has a similar function.

But such a macro can also have an extra option, that if you really want to, you can fill in a specified userId, but maybe these function should not be to easy for everyone to use, for the given reason

--- (Edited on 4/6/2008 11:01 pm [GMT+0200] by bartjol) ---