Why can’t I format my slack messages?
Im getting:
And at steps-slack-message/main.go at master · bitrise-steplib/steps-slack-message · GitHub I see that it should be enabled.
So why is my text not bold, and a newlane, any clues?
Can you please include the build log of the Slack step?
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| (11) slack@2.3.0 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| id: slack |
| version: 2.3.0 |
| collection: https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise-steplib.git |
| toolkit: go |
| time: 2017-02-24T07:26:53-08:00 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
INFO[07:26:53] * [OK] Step dependency (go) installed, available.
Slack configs:
- WebhookURL: https://hooks.slack.com/services/....z
- Channel: bitrise-libs
- FromUsername: TPLib
- FromUsernameOnError: TPLib FAILED
- Message: *branch: master, build: #128*\nLatest commit: Prepare for next release
- MessageOnError:
- Color: good
- ColorOnError: danger
- Emoji:
- EmojiOnError: :no_entry_sign:
- IconURL: http://.....ework_icon.png
- IconURLOnError:
Other configs:
- IsDebugMode: false
- IsBuildFailed: false
Slack message successfully sent! 🚀The issue seems to be that you did input \n as a character into the message/text. That will be encoded as \n, it won’t do a newline!
Simply hit Enter in the input to do a newline:
Result:
Hmm, well, that explains the \n but not why it’s not bold? I’ll have to do some testing, it’s actually a variable set in previous steps. Ill get back 
I’d say most likely the \ character might confuse Slack in this case - it worked as expected if the text did not include \n (see my slack screenshot at Slack message formatting ).
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Yepp, worked out fine after removing \n. Thank you!
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