# Mention @ a user in a workflow when creating a record comment

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/mention-a-user-in-a-workflow-when-creating-a-record-comment/653>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [May 7, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/mention-a-user-in-a-workflow-when-creating-a-record-comment/653 "2024-05-07T12:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kieran](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/kieran/32/91_2.png) [@Kieran](https://community.noloco.io/u/Kieran)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/mention-a-user-in-a-workflow-when-creating-a-record-comment/653/1 "2024-05-07T12:53:48Z")

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Way to issue:

Create a workflow that creates a new record comment that mention the user is selected as part of a new message form.

The record comment is created and the text @Kieran Saunders but not hightlighted like a mentioned user when done in the comments components.

See screenshoots

 ![Screenshot 2024-05-07 at 13.49.26](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/noloco/original/1X/86a6bc002117c49bdbb4c4a0a082d5cf15baf000.png)  
 ![Screenshot 2024-05-07 at 13.53.30](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/noloco/original/1X/d045646cf2e009c6253aefce6e830cf0c9ab2f18.png)

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**Author:** ![dianakirby](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/dianakirby/32/38_2.png) [@dianakirby](https://community.noloco.io/u/dianakirby)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/mention-a-user-in-a-workflow-when-creating-a-record-comment/653/2 "2024-09-03T21:03:25Z")

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I want to +1 this as I went to do this same thing today and ran into the same experience. The main thing I’m trying to solve for here by tagging the User is to send them a notification because they’ve been tagged, but in the native way it would be if a user was typing out their comment manually.

I can work around this by just adding a step to my workflow to send a native push notification, but it would be a cool feature to have within the “add a record comment” workflow action.

For reference: I tried it the following ways:

- @ {First Name} {Last Name}
- {First Name} {Last Name}
- @{First Name}\_{Last Name}
- @{user email}
- {user email}

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**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/mention-a-user-in-a-workflow-when-creating-a-record-comment/653/3 "2024-09-04T07:54:21Z")

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Hey @Kieran and @dianakirby

We actually do support this, and it’s documented in our guides, admittedly it’s under the section of Make / Zapier.

> **[Record Comments | Noloco](https://guides.noloco.io/record-pages/record-comments#programmatic-mentions)**
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> Comment and collaborate on any record in Noloco

> If you want to mention a colleague or customer in a comment when creating comments programmatically, you can mention them by ID using this format `@[123]` where `123` is the Noloco User’d ID.

In practice, it would look something like this:

![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/noloco/original/1X/6443298b130efbe7d2a8d37f308ac079fb66f922.png)

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**Author:** ![dianakirby](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/dianakirby/32/38_2.png) [@dianakirby](https://community.noloco.io/u/dianakirby)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/mention-a-user-in-a-workflow-when-creating-a-record-comment/653/4 "2024-09-04T15:02:09Z")

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Thank you! It’s so silly- I actually tried this too but forgot about it, but I added a “@” at the start because I was thinking of it like manually tagging someone it showed up as @123 🙂 But now I know to add the around it. Appreciate it and the helpful reminder to check guides first as well!!

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**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/mention-a-user-in-a-workflow-when-creating-a-record-comment/653/5 "2024-09-04T15:16:03Z")

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Happy to help @dianakirby ! 🚀