# Posts with attachments and desktop notifications ("... did something new")

**URL:** <https://forum.mattermost.com/t/posts-with-attachments-and-desktop-notifications-did-something-new/2507>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [November 17, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/posts-with-attachments-and-desktop-notifications-did-something-new/2507 "2016-11-17T12:56:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![christiananton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/christiananton/32/999_2.png) [@christiananton](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/christiananton)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/posts-with-attachments-and-desktop-notifications-did-something-new/2507/1 "2016-11-17T12:56:43Z")

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Hi there!

I am trying to develop a little integration. I have been using attachments ([Redirect](https://docs.mattermost.com/developer/message-attachments.html)) in order to have a message with a green, red or blue border at the left side. Just as in the examples on the linked page, I have a post that consists only of an “attachment”. I have a “text” and a “fallback” field within my attachment and everything looks good, except the notifications: My Desktop Client notifications don’t use the “fallback” text but instead say “ did something new”. At the message’s top level, I don’t want a text to be defined, but I tried a “fallback” field at this level which is ignored.

My message payload looks as follows:

```
payload = {
    'channel' : 'off-topic',
    'username' : 'I am a bot',
    'fallback' : 'this is the fallback text', # this is ignored...?
    'attachments': [
        {
            'text' : ' **formatted** _text_',
            'fallback' : "fallback unformatted text message",
            'color': '#1A9D01',
            'title': 'Super Important Notification',
            'title_link': 'http://google.com',
        }
    ]
}

```

Any idea on how to achieve this correctly?

Thanks

Christian

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**Author:** ![lfbrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/lfbrock/32/1901_2.png) [@lfbrock](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/lfbrock)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/posts-with-attachments-and-desktop-notifications-did-something-new/2507/2 "2016-11-22T14:49:56Z")

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Hi @christiananton - does this also happen on a browser?

My guess is this is a bug, we have a similar ticket here for that happening [when there is only an attachment](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/PLT-3038) but it sounds like it’s also happening when there’s no fallback text.

If you’d like to submit a fix for it, I don’t think anyone on the team has had a chance to work on it yet.