Using a variable as a mention

[stevenls]

Hey there,

At the end of a flow I have a variable of a persons name that I want to use as a mention.

I have a step to post a message to a Teams channel and in the body I use @variablename.  What I am getting though is

<p>@{variables('Technician')}</p>

Written to the channel.  What am I missing in relation to actually showing the value of the variable.

Thanks

[yashag2255 · Accepted solution]

Hi @stevenls 

You can check this post here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Can-you-Mention-anyone-in-Teams-from-a-flow/td-p/...

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[v-alzhan-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @stevenls ,

You should take a try as below:

<at>Test1@XXXXXX.com</at>

The message would be sent as below:

Best regards,

Alice   

Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
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[stevenls]

In my dumbness I wasn't using the fully qualified email address as the mention from the variable - once I changed that works a treat!