Send in-app notification when user is mentioned in timeline

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Posted on by yvka123

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a Power Automate Flow that will send an in-app notification to a User when she/he is mentioned in a post on a Timeline.

Can someone help me with that? Can't seem to find anything on the forum...

In-app functionality is activated and I have successfully created a different flow that will notify when a new task is assigned. I just don't know how to set the trigger to "when a User is mentioned in a post" ...

Thank you!!!

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Viktor Johansson on at

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Hi,

To my understanding there is no trigger on timeline mention unfortunatly.

But you can try to trigger on post create, and then parse the body of the post for mentions.

I cant test myself right now but it should be possible to then extract the systemuserid from the mention in the message, to use with the inapp notification.

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Hi yvka123,

As Viktor suggested, you can set up a trigger for when a new record (Post) is created, user's id stores in the text of the post.

How to filter the text of the post to get the ID of the mentioned user?

--Using split() function twice in the flow:

Overview:

Steps:

1.Trigger:

2.Get a row by id:

Then you can test run the flow to view format of the text:

Special format: @[8,userid,username,...], So you can use these special characters to split the text.

3.Using split() firstly to split text got from last step:

split(outputs('Get_a_row_by_ID')?['body/largetext'], '@[8,')[1]

4.use split() again to split output got from last step:

split(outputs('Compose'),',')[0]

Reference(usage of split() function in power automate):

https://www.enjoysharepoint.com/power-automate-split-string-into-an-array/

Then you can use the id of the user in your following steps to send in-app notification.

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Hi yvka123,

Have any updates?

Could you click 'Yes' to close the thread if my answer is helpful?

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yvka123 17 on at

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Finally got to test it - it works perfectly, thank you so much!!

I added a link to the regarding dataset in the notification. Super useful now :-)

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Christian K 144 on at

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Hi,

could you post how you got the user id or used the result of compose 2? I am somewhat stuck there....

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yvka123 17 on at

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Hi Christian,

this is all I did after Compose 2 and it works fine:

( "Verfassen" means compose, and "Neue Zeile hinzufügen" is "Adding a new row" )

Hope that helps.

Best regards

Yvonne

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