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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
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
12
Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Building and hosting your bot

When building your app, and therefore your bot, for Slack, you can choose to either create an app specifically for you and your workspace or one that can be made public through the Slack App Directory. Public apps become available to any user that wishes to download them to their workspace, whereas apps specifically designed for you and your team remain private to just you, the creator, or for you and any member within your workspace.

No matter the ultimate distribution of your app, creating your app requires a little more than simply inputting a name and workspace for it to act in. Your app will need elements such as APIs, webhooks, and Block Kit, but before adding all of those extra features, you first have to start with the basics: bot tokens, scopes, and OAuth.

Setting up bot tokens

After you've clicked the Create App button shown in the previous screenshot, you'll be redirected to the Building Apps for Slack page, where you&apos...