Mentions in a rich embed are appearing as their string

Question

I'm having a problem where my bot does not mention correctly in rich embeds. It appears to be unable to tag a user at all.

A mention ends up looking like...

<@601756839956447232>

It should ping the user and look like...

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• I've tried doing author.toString() in my message.
• I've tried using <@${author.id}>.
• I've tried using @${author.tag}.
• I've tried using ${author}.

All of these attempts produce the same result.

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This is the code I'm using...

var serv = message.guild
var author = message.author

var myInfo = new discord.RichEmbed()
    .setAuthor(`${serv.name}'s roles`,`${message.guild.iconURL}`)
    .addField(`Roles`, serv.roles.map(r => `${r}`).join(' | '),true)
    .setColor(0xffd000)
    .setFooter('Server Roles.')
    .setFooter(`Requested by @${author.tag}`,`${author.avatarURL}`)

message.channel.sendEmbed(myInfo);

My main goal here is to tag the user in the embed message without tagging the user. My main focus is to get https://imgur.com/a/hbgm1TX to https://imgur.com/a/lB1Moh9 but the ping does NOT actually ping anyone located in the embed.

Answer 1

These text-based properties of RichEmbeds (v11) and MessageEmbeds (v12) do not support mentions...

• Author
• Title
• Field Name
• Footer

These don't even support any markdown...

• Author
• Footer

Because a footer can't parse the mention, it shows up as the string you see. Also, a user will not be given a notification for their mention in any part of an embed. Finally, the TextChannel#sendEmbed() method is deprecated and has been removed in v12 of Discord.js; use TextChannel#send().

This code will use the author's tag instead of trying to parse a mention in the footer. If you want to use the user's mention without pinging them, you can place it in any part of the embed not listed above. Otherwise, their mention must be part of the message content.

var myInfo = new discord.RichEmbed() // v11 only
  .setColor(...)
  .setAuthor(...)
  .addField(...)
  .setFooter(`Requested by ${message.author.tag}.`, message.author.displayAvatarURL);

message.channel.send(myInfo)
  .catch(console.error);