Question. How to uses Mentions, aka @here, @channel

[fernandothefreeosk]

Hello,

I am trying to send a message to a channel in Slack. I will like to use mentions, like the mention @channel. How Can I do it?

I tried this: SlackSession session = SlackSessionFactory.createWebSocketSlackSession("my-token"); session.connect(); SlackChannel channel = session.findChannelByName("my_channel"); session.sendMessage(channel, "@channel Hello world, I am a bot. Testing Java app to post in Slack, ignore this message" );

The word "@channel" doesn't appear in slack when I see the message, but also the people on that channel don't get the notification or alert about the new message that was posted on the channel.

[bittiez]

You can use mentions like this: <@USER_OR_CHAN_ID_HERE>