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If you want to Speed up your processes with good Slack Notifications, follow along below for how you can go about doing it.

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titleOkay so our first problem is to get a valid Key

We need to go through’s Slack’s process to create a Private app. Effectively we need to set up a password that Iguana can use to talk to Slack.

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titleNow add the chat:write.public and users:read.email scopes

This is common concept when setting up a Private app. We have to tell Slack what the app is allowed to access.

The trick here is to enter the scopes you are searching for like for chat:write.public we have:

Some actions (scopes) require other permissions to work, so Slack will prompt you about getting those permissions as well.

Repeat rinse with users:read.email

After this you should see:

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titleClick edit script to open the translator and see it in action!

This little video shows the whole thing in action:

action.mp4

Can you start to see how easy it will be to Speed up your processes with good Slack Notifications and eliminate communication bottlenecks in your processes.

Now life gets interesting when you think about how to apply this.

Take a look at How the Slack Notifier works for more information on the concepts used in building and adapting this component.