Re: Mentions via Incoming Webhook

[Dana Powers]

have you tried:

<!everyone>

that's the suggestion from https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting

-Dana

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:35 PM, <jonatha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm using the node-slack module. I'm trying to send messages to a channel but I would like to mention participants (or @everyone); however when I send the @everyone tag as part of the message it doesn't render as a mention in the channel, just as common text, any idea how to achieve this?

Thank you.

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[Jonathan Wiesel]

That works great for everyone; however I noticed that to mention a person it must be done by it's ID like <@U12345>, is there a way to make it by just the normal mention name?

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[Cal Henderson]

On 1/4/2014 1:58 PM, Jonathan Wiesel wrote:
> That works great for everyone; however I noticed that to mention a
> person it must be done by it's ID like <@U12345>, is there a way to make
> it by just the normal mention name?

not currently - we need to start supporting it. we'll be adding various
option flags to webhooks (and the upcoming api method for posting
messages) to do a few things:

* linkify URLs
* linkify bare '@name'/'@everyone' etc. mentions
* optionally 'unfurl' media URLs (images, video)
* optionally 'unfurl' regular URLs (oembed/opengraph stuff)
* other things i've forgotten


--cal

[Cal Henderson]

On 1/6/2014 10:38 AM, Cal Henderson wrote:
> not currently - we need to start supporting it. we'll be adding various
> option flags to webhooks (and the upcoming api method for posting
> messages) to do a few things:
>
> * linkify URLs
> * linkify bare '@name'/'@everyone' etc. mentions
> * optionally 'unfurl' media URLs (images, video)
> * optionally 'unfurl' regular URLs (oembed/opengraph stuff)
> * other things i've forgotten

Incoming webhooks now support the 'parse' and 'link_names' arguments in
the updated formatting docs:

https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting
(See the section on 'Parsing modes')

--cal

[Cal Henderson]

On 1/13/2014 1:23 PM, Cal Henderson wrote:
> Incoming webhooks now support the 'parse' and 'link_names' arguments in
> the updated formatting docs:
>
> https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting
> (See the section on 'Parsing modes')

... but we just rolled it back because a dumb bug broke some existing
hooks. we'll roll out a fix later this week.

--cal

[Myles Grant]

And now this support has been re-rolled out.

--cal

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[sels...@gmail.com]

Hi guys,

Just trying to use the webhooks to notify me on a solarwinds alert (system monitoring)

if i use:

payload={"text": "My Text here"}

It works

If i try and fancy it up with color and formatting it fails:

payload = {"attachment" : [ {"color" : "red", "title" : "mytitle"}], "value" : "the message" }

any ideas?

also @myname doesnt seem to work. Thanks!

[Paul Hammond]

Hi!

There are a couple of things you need to change to get this to work. Firstly, colors need to be specified as hex codes, say "#ff0000". Secondly, right now your message is not actually part of the attachment. This should work:

payload={"text":"Message text", "attachments":[{"text":"Attachment text", "title": "Attachment title", "color":"#ff0000"}]}

Which will look like this:

https://slack-files.com/T024BE7LD-F028CMKRT-37b8fd

It's worth adding a fallback property to the attachment, in case a client doesn't support attachments (for example, the IRC gateways): 

payload={"text":"Message text", "attachments":[{"text":"Attachment text", "title": "Attachment title", "color":"#ff0000", "fallback": "Attachment fallback" }]}

To get @names to link you need to add the link_names property:

payload={"text":"Hello @myname", "link_names": 1 }

Hope this helps!

Paul

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