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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
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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

Using existing frameworks

Creating your bots from scratch can be a difficult process. There's a lot of technical factors that come into play that can be jumbled or inputted incorrectly, which can affect the entirety of the final message/action product.

Frameworks exist to make your life easier.

Slack's frameworks serve as a kind of guideline for your bots. You have the option to pick and choose the outline you want to use and then customize it to your needs. Change a text message to read the announcement you're trying to make. Alternate the time and date in your date picker to match your meeting details. All of these options are available to you more quickly and easily when you choose to utilize frameworks.

To do this, it helps to know where you can access these pre-existing frameworks. In this section, we'll discuss the two most common outlets for finding existing code to alter: Block Kit and Bolt.

Block Kit

In Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block...