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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
Book Image

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By: Moshe Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Slack Overview
7
Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
12
Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot

Anything team members can do, bots can do better. Bots are like your average team member but they never take a lunch break, vacation day, or sick leave. They work around the clock to answer commands and tasks you set for them to do to make your life easier. In Chapter 6, Your Workspace Slackbot, we discovered Slackbot – the most basic and beginner understanding of a bot and its many capabilities. Now, with the skills we've learned through Chapter 7, Integrating Your Favorite Tools, Chapter 8, Automate Your Workflow with Zapier and Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandbox, you're ready to tackle building your own bot yourself.

Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandbox, set us up with the many aspects of a bot that you can customize through API elements and fields, webhooks, individual and stacked blocks in Block Kit, and the experimental workspace that is the sandbox. But to utilize any of these tools,...