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So if 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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titleYou need to have a slack account and IguanaX installed. If you don't expand this point to find out how.

You will need a Slack account that you control - if you don’t already have one then Get a free Slack Account

You will also need to have IguanaX installed - see Installation.

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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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titleInstall to the workspace to get the API Key which

You will scroll to the top of the screen for this:

then you will see something like:

and then you get the gold - the Api Key which Slack calls a Bot User OAuth Token (ugh I hate jargon).

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titlePaste the API key into the Slack Notifier card view

Copy paste it into the Key (see Custom Fields ) for the Slack Notifier component:

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titleThen get a Channel ID from a Slack channel you want to write to and set the ID in the ChannelID field in the card

Create a new Slack Channel to receive notifications. This channel must be public.

Each Channel in Slack has a unique ID. To find it, in the regular Slack application, right click on a channel you want to write to the app and select the View channel details

You will see something like this:

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Copy the Channel ID into the ChannelID Custom Fields of the notifier component:

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titleChange the email address to some one who you know is in your Slack Workspace

The email will be used to tag a user in your Slack notification.

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This little video shows the whole thing in action:

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

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 SLACK Library for more information on the concepts used in building and adapting this component.

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