# Make new Slack channel ID available in markdown template

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/make-new-slack-channel-id-available-in-markdown-template/3444>\
**Category:** Integrations\
**Created:** [October 26, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-new-slack-channel-id-available-in-markdown-template/3444 "2022-10-26T11:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![HereBeBeasties](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/herebebeasties/32/5429_2.png) [@HereBeBeasties](https://community.fibery.io/u/HereBeBeasties)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-new-slack-channel-id-available-in-markdown-template/3444/1 "2022-10-26T11:12:28Z")

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The “create a new Slack channel” action is super-helpful for things like incident management. It’d be even more helpful if the newly-created channel ID was available in the markdown template, so that you could send a message to another existing channel, linking to the newly-created one.

You need this because Slack’s message markup doesn’t support mentioning channels using their name - you have to use the channel ID instead.

If this is easy to propagate through then we’d really appreciate it being added.

Use case:

Being able to send a message to #incidents saying “A new incident has been declared: ‘Everything is on fire’ - please join #incidents-everything-is-on-fire for more information” and have that new channel name actually be a link you can click on.

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**Author:** ![Polina\_Zenevich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/polina_zenevich/32/480_2.png) [@Polina\_Zenevich](https://community.fibery.io/u/Polina_Zenevich)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-new-slack-channel-id-available-in-markdown-template/3444/2 "2022-11-03T12:50:51Z")

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Many thanks for the idea!  
Added to the backlog 🙂