Tagging individuals with Slack notifications

Owned by Eliot Muir
Last updated: Dec 12, 2023 by Aryn Wiebe
1 min read

This is extremely powerful. When you send a slack notification from IguanaX it is possible to ‘tag’ an a person.

This means the person gets an explicit Slack notification - they can be extremely powerful for automating work flows. In our Build system for instance if a developer push code which results in a build where something breaks, they they personally get notified that they pushed code that broke the build.

Getting that fast feedback makes a huge difference to productivity since it’s easier for the developer to fix the bug in the moment rather than coming back to it later when they have moved on to another task.

To do it one needs to know the Slack User ID and format a sequence like <@UserId> in a slack message. The user must also be a member of the Slack Channel the notification is sent to.

The Slack Notifier example shows how one can do this - hint, we use an email to get the Slack User ID and append it to the notification.

See SLACK Library.