A wrkfow to send a message to a slack user

david

Objective: Build a workflow that will send a message to a slack user.

Input:

Name
Message

Slack will require a channel id to send a message to the right recipient. There are ways to retrieve the channel id via API but we won't need this. Instead we will use the "Data Store" to have a table with the name and the associated channel id. The workflow will then reference the name and send the message to the associated channel id in Slack.

e.g:

John Doe = J017PRUE136

I will PM you my slack ID for testing. I have added our Slack CA to your account.

Ashutosh

This is done by 2 different approaches @david

Method 1:
Wrkflow name: Slack Test 1 - Fullestop
Approach -
In this method, the default Wrk action “Retrieve all items from a JSON array” was used to extract the channelId from the JSON.
Workflow: https://account.wrk.com/designer/?wrkflow_id=48693

Method 2:
Wrkflow name: Slack Test 2 - Fullestop
Approach -
In this method, instead of using the default action, JavaScript was used to extract the channelId directly from the JSON.
Workflow: https://account.wrk.com/designer/?wrkflow_id=48694

Nitish

We’ve made some updates based on @david suggestion.

In Method 1:
Previously, we used the action "Retrieve all items from a JSON array" to handle arrays and extract each item. This has now been replaced with "Retrieve values from JSON", which allows us to extract specific fields from a single JSON object.

It seems to be working as expected.

There have been no changes to the Slack message functionality.

david

This is looking good! Let's consider this one closed.