You're reading from Supercharge your Slack Productivity Discover hacks and tips for managing and automating your workflow with Slack and Slack bots

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569621

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Slack

Concepts

Real Time Communication

Author (1):

Moshe Markovich

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Slack Overview

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Slack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Slack Workspace

4. Chapter 3: Slack Features, Tips, and Tricks

5. Chapter 4: Onboarding Your Team to Slack

6. Chapter 5: Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners

7. Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots

8. Chapter 6: Your Workspace Slackbot

9. Chapter 7: Integrating Your Favorite Tools

10. Chapter 8: Automate Your Workflow with Zapier

11. Chapter 9: Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandboxes

12. Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

13. Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot

14. Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot

15. Chapter 12: Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot

Anything team members can do, bots can do better. Bots are like your average team member but they never take a lunch break, vacation day, or sick leave. They work around the clock to answer commands and tasks you set for them to do to make your life easier. In Chapter 6, Your Workspace Slackbot, we discovered Slackbot – the most basic and beginner understanding of a bot and its many capabilities. Now, with the skills we've learned through Chapter 7, Integrating Your Favorite Tools, Chapter 8, Automate Your Workflow with Zapier and Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandbox, you're ready to tackle building your own bot yourself.

Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandbox, set us up with the many aspects of a bot that you can customize through API elements and fields, webhooks, individual and stacked blocks in Block Kit, and the experimental workspace that is the sandbox. But to utilize any of these tools,...