# One line fix for Slack integration - pretty please!

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/one-line-fix-for-slack-integration-pretty-please/4206>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/one-line-fix-for-slack-integration-pretty-please/4206 "2023-03-30T16:58:32Z")\
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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:** [March 30, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/one-line-fix-for-slack-integration-pretty-please/4206/1 "2023-03-30T16:58:33Z")

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Please could you add:

```auto
            "link_names": true, 

```

…to the `POST` body for your [chat.postMessage](https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage) call?  
It would let us include links to other channels, which would be super useful.

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**Author:** ![itsu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/itsu/32/1775_2.png) [@itsu](https://community.fibery.io/u/itsu)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/one-line-fix-for-slack-integration-pretty-please/4206/2 "2023-03-30T19:45:49Z")

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Hello, Alastair.

Can you please explain your use case, how do you use it?  
I might be missing something but I’ve tried creating an entity using slack integration and used a) channel name b) user name c) user group. In all cases, they appeared as a link in Slack (and quite an ugly string in Fibery).

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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:** [March 30, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/one-line-fix-for-slack-integration-pretty-please/4206/3 "2023-03-30T21:10:27Z")

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I’m talking about the other way around - posting Slack messages from Fibery automations.

We’re using Fibery for incident management. When a new Incident entity is created we run some actions via automations:

1. Create a new Slack channel named  
`Lower(Left("incident-" + [Step 1 Incident].[Public Id] + "-" + ReplaceRegex([Step 1 Incident].Name,"[^A-Za-z0-9-]","-"),80))`
2. Use the Slack “Send Message to Channel” action to post a message to the existing master `#incidents` channel, where we want to provide a link to the new channel.

But when we include this as the above e.g. `#incidents-1234-foo` string, it doesn’t get linked. The strings definitely match the channel name.

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**Author:** ![itsu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/itsu/32/1775_2.png) [@itsu](https://community.fibery.io/u/itsu)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 9:47am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/one-line-fix-for-slack-integration-pretty-please/4206/4 "2023-04-01T09:47:04Z")

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Thank you for the explanation. This makes total sense.

Fixed.

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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:** [April 5, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/one-line-fix-for-slack-integration-pretty-please/4206/7 "2023-04-05T17:09:08Z")

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Thanks for fixing this. Tested and working brilliantly. 💪