Facts
Required Scopes
No scopes required!
Usage info
This event is no longer served.
File mentions have been phased out in favor of regular messages and threads — read our changelog entry for more information.
This example includes both the event wrapper and the event structure for the file_mention message subtype event.
{
"token":"XXYYZZ",
"team_id":"T123ABC456",
"api_app_id":"A123ABC456",
"event":{
"type":"message",
"subtype":"file_mention",
"ts":"1358877455.000010",
"text":"<@cal> mentioned a file: <https:...7.png|7.png>",
"file":{},
"user":"U123ABC456"
},
"type":"event_callback",
"authorizations":[
{
"team_id":"T123ABC456",
"user_id":"U123ABC456",
"is_bot":false,
"is_enterprise_install":false,
}
],
"event_id":"Ev123ABC456",
"event_time":123456789
}
A file_mention message is sent when a file is mentioned in a channel, group or direct message.
The file property contains a file object. The user property contains the User ID of the user that mentioned the file (which may differ from the user that uploaded the file).