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I am building a custom app for integrating our ERP software with Mattermost ahead of deployment to my company. I have gotten messages returning as I expect on mentioned code words. For example order #9999 returns basic details of that order back to the channel that ‘order #9999’ is mentioned in. I want to format this return data as a formatted Message Attachment. I am finding it impossible to understand how to do this. I started with the Go Bot sample project and built upon that. I would appreciate some guidance. Thanks!

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Hi @earlgrei! Apologies for the late reply and thank you for reaching out.

Would you have a link to the project you are using (I just want to make sure I’m looking at the right one)?

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@amy.blais I was able to get it figured out with the help of @hmhealey and @jwilander over in the pre-release MM server. Code sample is included.

I was using this sample project to get started. https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-bot-sample-golang

post := &model.Post{
	Message:   "message",
	ChannelId: replyToChannel,
	Props: map[string]interface{}{
		"attachments": []model.SlackAttachment{
			{
				Color:     "#7800FF",
				Pretext:   "Some text here",
				Text:      "This is the text of the attachment. It should appear just above the image",
				ThumbURL:  "https://slack.global.ssl.fastly.net/7bf4/img/services/jenkins-ci_128.png",
				Title:     "A slack attachment",
				TitleLink: "https://www.google.com",
			},
		},
	},
}
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To format the return data as a Message Attachment, you can use the model.SlackAttachment struct in your Go Bot code. Here’s a basic example:

attachment := &model.SlackAttachment{
    Title: "Order Details",
    Text:  "Here are the details for order #9999",
    Fields: []*model.SlackAttachmentField{
        {
            Title: "Order ID",
            Value: "9999",
            Short: true,
        },
        {
            Title: "Status",
            Value: "Processing",
            Short: true,
        },
    },
}

post := &model.Post{
    ChannelId: channelID,
    Message:   "Order Details:",
    Props: map[string]interface{}{
        "attachments": []*model.SlackAttachment{attachment},
    },
}

_, resp := client.CreatePost(post)
if resp.Error != nil {
    // Handle error
}

Replace channelID with the actual channel ID. This should help you present your ERP software data in a structured and readable format.