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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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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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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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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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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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Copy paste it into the Key (see Custom Fields ) for the Slack Notifier component: |
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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: Copy the Channel ID into the ChannelID Custom Fields of the notifier component: |
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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: 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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