Hello there, I creating a bot using REST API. I create an admin user in Mattermost with a personal token and allow overriding pictures and names in integrations. I need to override the username and icon_url in api/v4/posts when post message using REST API. But seems that in this case, it didn’t …

Override username and icon_url using posts request REST API

jasonblais (Jason Blais) January 17, 2019, 2:45pm 4

Hey @taras.budzyn, this is in fact supported - you can include "from_webook": "true" in the props of the API call and this should work for you.

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