1) Build your trigger message and add your message part

Build out your trigger message. In this example, I have an Onboarding Flow, which will trigger a message from the flow user if they have come across an issue in their onboarding journey. The query will then be posted to my New Onboarders channel in Flip, where a member of the onboarding team can look into the query in more detail.

In the trigger message, make sure you build out the message that your flow users sees (as you can see in the text box below) before adding your Post to Channel message part.

2) Add your Post to Channel message part

In the message part menu, choose Post to Channel:

3) Add your post text

Add in your text - this will be the text that will be seen in the channel post. You will be asked to add a title and body text for your post. For example:

4) Configure your "Post to channel" settings

Click on "Post to channel settings" and select your desired channel from the dropdown menu:

If you have recently created your channel and it doesn't pull through on the dropdown menu, click the "refresh channels" button and try again. If it still doesn't pull through, double check that the API client attached to your flow is a member of the channel you are trying to connect to.

5) Save your message and test your flow

Save your message, push your changes live and test your flow to make sure the flow is triggering the post to the channel as expected. The post will show up in the channel, posted by the flow. You can then interact with the post as usual.

Adding an image to your post

You can also add an image to your post by clicking on the camera icon in the Post to Channel message part, and uploading an image from your drive:

This will then show up as a header image on your post.