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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.

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:

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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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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