<![CDATA[SLACK driver, use text formatting?]]>We've been using the SLACK notification driver for a while to send basic text, with the most advanced formatting to date being simple bold highling of certain text elements. This is done by just putting * around text i.e.
*this part is bold* this part is not

But I want to actually post with different colours, perhaps even with fancy attachments, but for now I just want to stick with colors

Is it possible with the included SLACK driver?
I've tried simply parsing this as text
{"attachments": [{"color": "#ad03fc","text": "Optional text that appears within the attachment"}]}
which pasting it in here shows is valid syntax https://api.slack.com/docs/messages/builder
but I just get the literal text in the SLACK channel. I don't know how the included driver actually works to perhaps further modify the syntax so it works

Any help?

Alternatively can NetXMS do a HTTP Put? because if so I know how to make that work, we already do fancy formatting with Solarwinds that way

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/topic/6552/slack-driver-use-text-formattingRSS for NodeFri, 13 Nov 2026 06:22:32 GMTThu, 28 May 2020 04:33:41 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to SLACK driver, use text formatting? on Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:18:47 GMT]]>Thanks for sharing

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/27991https://forum.netxms.org/post/27991Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:18:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to SLACK driver, use text formatting? on Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:12:25 GMT]]>I know nothing about curl or executing commands from NetXMS. So is this the correct syntax to put into the 'command' box?


Was close. This is the correct syntax

curl -d 'payload={"attachments": [{"color": "#36a64f","text": "Text example from node %n message is %m %M"}]}' -X PUT https://{SLACK WEBHOOK URL}
]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/27988https://forum.netxms.org/post/27988Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:12:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to SLACK driver, use text formatting? on Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:59:58 GMT]]>You can create action that "executes command on the management server" and call curl in that action.

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/27984https://forum.netxms.org/post/27984Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:59:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to SLACK driver, use text formatting? on Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:34:33 GMT]]>Ok so the SLACK driver is not going to be able to support fancy formatting beyond anything that can be expressed in regular text, i.e. bolding

However can NetXMS do a HTTP PUT? As that would allow me to post whatever I want. As mentioned before this is how we get fancy formatting from Solarwinds NCM as it pushes to slack via a HTTP PUT operation

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/27983https://forum.netxms.org/post/27983Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:34:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to SLACK driver, use text formatting? on Fri, 29 May 2020 15:09:50 GMT]]>In current implementation of slack driver it creates a simple json like this:

{"channel":"C061EG9SL","text":"mesage_text"}

so anything you write just goes into "text" field. An ability to generate custom jsons would require to make quite some changes in slack notification channel code.

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/27982https://forum.netxms.org/post/27982Fri, 29 May 2020 15:09:50 GMT