Tips for formatting Slack messages

You can format Slack messages in Zaps to add styling, user mentions, and channel and workspace notifications.

Text

• Bold text: wrap your text with asterisks (*).
  *bold*
• Italic text: wrap your text with underscores (_).
  _italic_
• Strikethrough text: wrap your text with tildes (~).
  ~strikethrough~

Inline code and blockquotes

• Inline code blocks that are a single word or line: wrap your text with a single backtick (`).
  `inline code block`
• For inline code blocks that are a block of text: wrap your text with three backticks.
  ```inline code block text block```
• For blockquotes: start the blockquote with a closing angle bracket (>).
  >blockquote

Lists

• Ordered lists: type the number, a period (.), and a space before your text.
  1. ordered list
• Bulleted lists: it's not possible to format bulleted lists in the same way it's done directly on Slack (using asterisks). However, you can mimic the formatting using the bullet point symbol (•) and a space before your text.
  • bulleted list

Links

URL links are automatically hyperlinked in Slack without additional formatting.

To display link text instead of the URL:

• Type an open angle bracket (<), your URL link, a pipe character (|), your link text, and a closing angle bracket.
  <https://zapier.com|Link text>

Tip

Link text will include spaces between words.

New lines

No special formatting is required. To add a new line, use the return (enter) key on your keyboard.

Note

You can enter only enter a single new line between lines of text. Two or more consecutive new lines are not supported.

Emoji

• Wrap the name of the emoji in colons (:).
  :heart_eyes:

Mentions and notifications

• 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.
  <@UG1234567>
• “Everyone” notification (notifies everyone in your workspace in the #general channel): type an open angle bracket, an exclamation point (!), “everyone”, and a closing angle bracket.
  <!everyone>
• “Here” notification (notifies active members in a specific channel): type an open angle bracket, an exclamation point (!), “here”, and a closing angle bracket.
  <!here>
• “User group” notification (notifies all members of a user group): type an open angle bracket, an exclamation point (!), type in “subteam” , a caret symbol (^), the user group ID (see below how to find the group ID), and a closing angle bracket.
  <!subteam^abcde123456>

Tip

To find a user’s Slack member ID:

• Select the user’s Slack profile.
• Click More.
• Copy the member ID by clicking Copy member ID and paste it into your Zap.

To find a user group ID:

• Open Slack in your web browser.
• Select People & user groups from the left-hand menu.
• In the People window, select the User groups tab.
• Select the user group you want to mention.
• In the web page URL, copy the alphanumeric ID that follows /user_groups/. This is the user group ID.

Note

Your workspace may disable notifications or usage of @here and @everyone. Contact your Slack administrator to verify if notifications are enabled.