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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)
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Section 1: Slack Overview
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Creating a bot user

There are two ways to go about creating your workplace Slackbot: as a standalone bot or a Slack app. Bots start off universal and are made to fit the app, niche, company, team, or member you choose to pair them with. Standalone bots serve individual purposes within your Slack instance and aren't necessarily connected to an app. In this section, we'll take a look at how to start this building process by creating a standalone bot user. Bots are unique to every workspace and that's why it takes a member, Workspace Owner or Admin to set up the bot and the specified channel(s) they'll work in for the magic to really begin. Let's see how to create one.

Building your bot user

A bot is the key to automating your workspace, and like anything in Slack, your bot should be personalized to you and your team. Follow these steps to create your own bot user:

  1. Begin on your app's settings page by selecting the App Home feature. It will...