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Is there a way to mark a message as important using a flow bot on a channel? Can't seem to find any prebuilt functionality or HTML-tags I can use.

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Fredrik

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Pstork1 69,026 Most Valuable Professional on at

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To do that you would need to use a Power Automate flow, but at this point none of the Power Automate actions have access to the Importance flags in channel messages. It is a requested feature and you can vote for it here:

Mark a Teams Message Post with Importance - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

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Hi @Pstork1,

As far as I am aware it is possible to use the Graph API as a workaround. You can post a teams message and set the importance property to high in the body.

In Teams the end result looks like this.

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Does this still work? do we still use beta or v1.0?
I am also trying to set important, but seems like there is an issues. My teams channel has, for example Testers under this there are other channels Testers>Alerts, I want to seen the message to Alerts, what should the String look like ?
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/{group-id-for-teams}/channels/{channel-id}@thread.tacv2/{SubChannel name}/messages

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Please post this as a new question. You'll get more responses and others will be able to find the answer more easily later.

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@Expiscornovus do you know if this method still works given send http request is now v2? Also, can I use it to send a message directly to a specific user vs a channel? If you could illustrate how to do that, I would be super grateful! Thankyou!

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Hi @pw212,

This approach does not work with the Send an HTTP request v2 action, because that action only allows resources of type group. In this example we are using resources of type teams. Alternatively, you could use a HTTP action instead.

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