Formatting phone number in Slack message?

Question

Is there a way to format a phone number returned in a Slack message as a clickable link which opens the phone icon? I have a chatbot which integrates with Slack and sends messages to a channel. One of those messages has a phone number which appears as just text and does not get highlighted as clickable.

I know a lot of apps do this, like email, sms, etc. so I was hoping Slack would automatically detect a phone number. I'm specifically using the Android Slack app.

Any help would be appreciated!

EDIT:

Figured it out, had to add '-' to the phone number for Slack to automatically pick up the phone number. So something like 604-445-5566 would be picked up but 6044555566 would not be picked up as a phone number!

Answer 1

when you send the message send it this format "<tel:00000|00000>" and it will be clickable with the option to call that number