Ping @channel with Slack integration

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I have a lovely Coda automation that sends a message to my Slack channel when we are missing a certain inventory item. I love it.

There are two things I would like to be able to do:

  1. Send the message from a coda bot rather than my own account (I am the one intending to receive the message after all).
  2. Ping @channel (or @individual) when I post. Right now, it does not allow the channel to be pinged (the text ‘@channel’ goes through, it just doesn’t activate the notification for some reason).
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  1. For our teams we created an account called slackbot that we use (added it to the channel and use it in automation)
  2. Need to dig into 2. I have one setup daily and I think it notifies those @mentioned. Will try @here and see how that goes.
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Just saw this new template - with notifications! Take a look and see if it helps ( cause I’ll get to notification debugging later today … )

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Ah I see, I’m not trying to message someone directly, I’m trying to @ someone inside another channel. So this solution:
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Won’t work, because the channel option is used by the slack handle (which is already taken by my #inventory channel name).

Would love some ideas on how to get around this.

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Could really use this @mention ability as well. Any word on this?

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Any fix on this? Trying to use the Slack pack and not getting @mention working either.

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@Sean_Kennedy - @ mentions work for me

I user @

Can you share a little more about what you are trying?

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I was having an issue with users that have periods in their handle, it wouldn’t mention properly.

Did some digging and figured out that you can @ their Slack User ID

So something like:

Concatenate("👋 Hi @", thisRow.[Slack ID], ", just a reminder that it's your day to give us updates on: `",thisRow.[Update Type], "` !")

You can find the user’s Slack ID by going to their profile and hitting the kebab menu to Copy member ID

For a small team, it’s no problem, but really wish the Slack pack would provide a translation layer for easier automations!

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@mallika Hi!
Automation bot returns False in step “If” formula:
“[table name].Filter(thisrow.Birthday = Today()).Count>0”

It doesn’t work because the birthday column contains a true birth year, if you put the current year, the bot works.

How do make the bot respond only to the date, not looking at the year of birth?