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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569621
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Moshe Markovich Moshe Markovich
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

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...
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