Tea bot @channel permissions issue

[adamssski]

Hello,

It seems to me that tea bot can't message a channel. I don't get any notifications and "@channel" appears as normal text.

[Jamiewarb]

Hi @adamssski
Yes this seems to be the case, and that messaging a channel isn't available to the bot.

I've not come up with a workaround for this. Though thinking about it now, perhaps you could create a Slack group for @tealovers, then add the people that would like notifications for this. I could then add a config option for notifyGroup, which would output the group there instead of @channel.

If you or anyone has any other ideas, let me know!

[adamssski]

Ah I see. Does the following from Slack documentation help at all:

To notify members with a bot message, the message must contain <!channel> or <!everyone>.

Source: Slack

[Jamiewarb]

Interesting, I'll look in to this and see if it works. Thanks!