Formatting Links for Slack Pack

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If you use the Slack Pack you may want to add links to your messages. Their syntax for allowing this isn’t intuitive.

For example, this does not work:

Slack::PostMessage([User's private Slack account],
  Format("Click here: {1}", Hyperlink("www.example.com", "link title"))
  "#random"
)

However, this does:

Slack::PostMessage([User's private Slack account],
  Format("Click here: <{1}|{2}>", "www.example.com", "link title")
  "#random"
)

The trick is to use that < url | title > syntax. E.g. <www.example.com|Example!> Read more here.

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Thanks sharing your investigation on the formula language syntax @Connor_McCormick1 :trophy:

It’s unfortunately sometimes a question of testing to get it working and it would be great if sample like these are added to the Coda | Formula library.

@steph may I ask your assistance on this by communicating this to the engineers & customer relation responsible in relation to the Coda | Formula library?

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Yep, I’m on it. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

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