# Having trouble with line breaks when posting to Slack via new plugin

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**Created:** [January 4, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/having-trouble-with-line-breaks-when-posting-to-slack-via-new-plugin/128913 "2021-01-04T23:54:24Z")\
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Just got my bubble app configured today so that when someone at my company creates a certain type of object, our whole team receive a Slack alert about it via a bot. [Bubble’s Slack plugin](https://manual.bubble.io/bubble-made-plugins/slack) works great, I’m just having one issue: line breaks.

I’m able to include asterisks in my message to call for markdown bold text, but Slack’s recommended `\n` is appearing in plain text. I’ve tried multiple other variations as well based on some Googling, e.g. `\\n\r`, etc.) but no luck.

Getting Slack to respect linebreaks appears to be a common pain point for developers interfacing with their API.

> <https://github.com/cleentfaar/slack/issues/21>
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> sending a chat message payload with \\n in it should convert it to a newline within slack. Instead, the \\n is...

Any suggestions? I’ve thought about creating a new field on my object that concatenates the multiple fields, with linebreaks built in… but before I go down that rabbithole, wanted to see if anyone had experienced a similar issue & resolved.