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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

Configuring a Slack API sandbox

While all of these APIs and Webhooks and Block Kit are amazing tools to utilize to help automate your workspace, sometimes it's hard to test them out on an already established Slack team. For many of these features, we've encouraged you to make sure the Zaps are connecting with the apps properly or the APIs are properly sending your desired text message into the right channel.

But, for the user, workspace owner, or admin that is trying to expand their knowledge in an already existing space, they may not have the leniency or availability to experiment with these tools before they need to be executed properly.

Enter sandbox

Sandbox is your playground and safe space to experiment and test your app against a Slack Enterprise Grid instance without fear of it messing up in production. Enterprise Grids exist for larger organizations and therefore can simulate multiple workspaces to appear like your actual enterprise company Slack account...

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