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Mentioning a Channel in Teams using Flow

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Posted on by jonathancavey

Hello, I am trying to post a message to a Teams Channel and '@' the channel in the message.
I have accomplished this using the 'Invoke a HTTP Request' and following the steps found here: http://www.expiscornovus.com/2019/05/29/mention-a-channel-with-flow/

The problem I am running into is that these messages post as coming from a user (me)
I would like to post and '@' the channel from a bot / adaptive card.

Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so how to?

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Hi!

Did you consider the new action block for this purpose?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/teams/#get-@mention-token-for-a-user

Havent tested myself yet, but hope this helps

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jonathancavey 56 on at

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@efialttes I am not sure if that will work, could you explain a little more?
I have it working posting from a user, but I want it to come from a bot. So I have the IDs and all of that.

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Hi!

According to this excellent article, it seems you can also use it not only in conventional posts but also inside Adaptive Cards

Post a message (V3)

Post a reply to a message (V2)

Post your own adaptive card as the Flow bot to a channel

Post an Adaptive Card to a Teams channel and wait for a response

https://poszytek.eu/en/microsoft-en/office-365-en/powerautomate-en/mentioning-in-microsoft-teams-via-power-automate/

Hope this helps

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jonathancavey 56 on at

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@efialttes I am attempting to '@' a channel not a user

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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OMG! sorry for your time testing my suggestion, and let's hope somebody else can point you to a good solution!

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jonathancavey 56 on at

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Yeah, I can '@' the channel. But it is posting from a user profile. I would like it post from a bot/adaptive card.

Thank you for reaching out

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Wait wait wait... did you try invoking the Graph API? I am afraid the action block is premium.

THere is also a workaround published by John Liu some time ago, not sure if it is still working

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/Mention-a-MS-Teams-Channel-using-Power-Automate/td-p/450448

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jonathancavey 56 on at

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This is what I have currently.

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Hi again!

Just checking

https://ashiqf.com/2020/02/09/mention-user-channel-in-teams-using-ms-graph-api/

THe only difference I see so far is this one

<at id ='0'>

Hope his helps

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Gyllentid 894 on at

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May I ask if the code to invoke a http request is still working? Mine says invalid json when attempting to run the flow. @jonathancavey

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