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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

Testing and pushing your bot live

Once your app is published and your bot is designed to your standards, the next step is to publish your work for your Slack world to see, right? Seemingly, yes, this would be the proper next step. But, as we've learned in previous chapters, there are many instances in which your bot may not have been coded or built properly, especially when being built from scratch, and could not function as it's supposed to.

Everybody makes mistakes, and that's why we want to prep for these mistakes in advance so that they don't have a negative effect on work happening in real time in our workspaces. We do this through testing.

Testing

Slack recommends that you always test out your app before putting it into action. From Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandbox, we know that a sandbox is the ultimate one-stop shop for testing out your apps and bots. A sandbox works effectively for big organizations as a workspace to see how...