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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

Summary

This chapter included a lot of technical terms, but also a lot of great tools you now have the ability to test out at your leisure in your very own workspace outside of your Slack workspace. In this chapter, we re-discovered Slack APIs with a more detailed explanation of what it is and how to use it. We learned specifically what the Webhook API is and how to create basic and advanced versions with text as well as other elements. We discovered Block Kit and how to customize and create individual and stacked blocks with a variety of types and fields. And we compiled that knowledge into the test station of sandbox by understanding how to set up and invite users to a mock workspace to test out these advanced features.

In the next chapter, we'll take a step further into the technical realm of Slack. Chapter 6, Your Workplace Slackbot, taught us the importance of Slackbot and the basics of how to build your very own bot. Now, we're going to take a deeper look into what...