How to @ mention in Slack using automation

In Slack Actions and Notifications Guide it has a place stating:

User mentions: type an open angle bracket, the at symbol (@), the user’s Slack member ID (see below how to find the member ID), and a closing angle bracket.

However there is no where below that mentions how to find the member id. Is there an easy way to find member id?

Open a user’s entity, and hover over the public Id in the top left. Press alt to see the UUID, and click to copy.

and this uuid can be used for @ messaging people on slack?

Sorry, what I wrote is how to get the Fibery user ID, my mistake :roll_eyes:
To get the slack member id do this:

Click on a user name within Slack.
Click on "View full profile" in the menu that appears.
Click the ellipses (three dots).
Click on "Copy Member ID"

I can see why you think the user guide is confusing.

Thanks @Chr1sG. Sounds like I need to add their slack ID’s to my fibery database so I can automate grabbing this info then. Was hoping there was a way to automate this since Fibery has their email address and that can be used for @ messaging.

Unfortunately, I don’t think knowing their email address is enough for Fibery to be able to find them in slack. I can see that this is annoying, but yeah, adding a ‘Slack ID’ field to the user database, and doing a one-time population is probably simplest.

I haven’t checked if slack’s API allows this process to be automated, so if you had 100s of users, it might be worth looking into.

Just adding a link to the Fibery user guide about this (as this is the first result in my search):

https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Slack-Actions-and-Notifications-102/anchor=Send-a-notification-about-new-workspace--c5639ffe-14b4-4906-a96d-3cc4044c6a25

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