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Posted on 12 May 2020 13:19:32 by

Hi All,

I created a recurring flow that checks if a support ticket is assigned within an hour.  I can send to email, text via phone#@carrier.com, and send a chat to a team channel.

All works as expected.

 

Does anyone know how to tag a user when the chat item is created?  Is there an HTML representation of @<user>?

When you are typing a conversion you can tag users with @<username> and that person will get an alert they have a new chat.

I added @<user> in the body of the message, but all it did was add @<user> it did not convert it to the username like when you are typing in the chat window, and did not show that I had  a message waiting.

TIA,

Joe

  • peggysue Profile Picture
    21 on 01 Feb 2024 at 23:15:56
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    Hey @rahul_baheti , try adding the action called "Get an @mention token for a user" before your "Post message in a chat or channel" action. Then you can use the output of that action inside your Post message action.

     

    I got the idea from here and it worked for me:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/teams/send-a-message-in-teams

  • rahul_baheti Profile Picture
    2 on 01 Jan 2024 at 05:46:31
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    Hi Everyone,

     

    I want to send message to individual using "Post message in a chat or channel" using chat bot

    As part of Message Body i want to tag the user so that when it comes to specific individual chat message it should get notification just like when someone tries to push message with username

    Based on above suggestions i tried to use this syntax

     

    rahul_baheti_0-1704087799742.png

     

    But when the message arrives in chat window it came like this

     

    Dear <at>bahetirahul86@gmail.com</at>
    Test flow
    Regards
    Rahul

     

     

    @joef , could you please advise how we can achieve this or what i am missing here?

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 11 Apr 2022 at 10:32:55
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    Hi, is this still possible in flows? Now when I tried, it just print as a plain text message. cannot @ mention a person using the post a message as flow bot to a channel action 

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 11 Apr 2022 at 10:31:20
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    Hi, is this still possible in power automate? Now when I tried, it just print as a plain text message. cannot @ mention a person using the post a message as flow bot to a channel action 

  • AlainD Profile Picture
    4 on 08 Jul 2021 at 16:43:32
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    I tried the proposed solution in order to send a message to a bot that was installed as an app in a channel.
    That bot is supposed to answer to the posted message with some data it is fetching elsewhere. When typing in the chat everything works fine.
    When using powerautomate, it only ended as a message like for the original poster @<botname>. It didn't convert to the botname like when you are typing in the chat window, and did not trigger the bot.
    I tried both @<botname> and <at>botname</at> without success.

    I tried it with "post a message in a chat or channel", "post message as the flow bot to a channel" and "post a message V3".

    Does anyone know how to tag a bot when the chat item is created?

    Thanks in advance,
    Alain

  • L1saD Profile Picture
    14 on 30 Jun 2021 at 14:36:05
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    This worked for me. Thank you! 

  • Nicer_Atl Profile Picture
    162 on 28 May 2020 at 14:55:03
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    Sure would be nice to control the footer/signature text.  Not to mention that it amounts to an advertisement of flow.microsoft.com in every bot post.  I find this very intrusive.   The flow creator should have total freedom to specify whether this footer is included and even what is included in it. 😠

  • Jcook Profile Picture
    7,770 Most Valuable Professional on 13 May 2020 at 15:34:32
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    Hello @joef 

    This would be a cool feature, but unfortunately no.

  • joef Profile Picture
    on 13 May 2020 at 11:11:50
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    HI @Jcook ,

    Do you know if there is a way to get rid of the auto signature at the bottom of the post?

    It says "I used Power Automate to send this notification"

     

    Not a big deal, but I don't like it 🙂

    Thanks,

    Joe

  • joef Profile Picture
    on 12 May 2020 at 19:13:06
    Re: Post a message (V3) to team channel and tag users

    Thank you!!

    I picked the wrong one 🙂

     

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