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

Summary

In this chapter, we again learned about bots, but on an advanced level. We can now appreciate the difference between these types of bots and our beloved assistant Slackbot and know how to set up and create our very own version. We were introduced to existing frameworks to avoid the ultimate code creation and know the importance of testing our bots before we push them live into our workspaces. Now that we have an appreciation for both the basic and advanced levels of learning what Slack has to offer, it's time to learn how to spot when the right moments are to utilize each.

In the next chapter, we'll learn how to identify when it's best to buy or build your bots. We know the difference between Slackbot and a regular bot and how to build our own. Yet, in some instances, for the not-so-technically-inclined, it may make more sense to purchase a pre-designed bot or completely outsource some of the more labor-intensive and detailed work. We'll go into detail...