Sending link in Slack without only the URL

[Chase_Schwalbach]

Hello,

Is there a way to send a link in Slack that includes Link text (versus just the URL)?

I’ve tried:
“<https://coda.io/xxxx|Goal Dates>”, which I found as the format for the Slack API to accept URLs

and HyperLink()

Both haven’t worked.

[Daniel_Stieber]

Because this still ranks first when searching for Slack URL:

The Syntax < url | title > should work perfectly fine. More about this can be found in this post:

Formatting Links for Slack Pack

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. <w…