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

Preparing your Slack app for submission

Let's start with a refresher course. As we learned in Chapter 7, Integrating Your Favorite Tools, the Slack App Directory is a hub for all of the existing apps available for public use within the Slack platform. The directory has over 2,000 applications for you to browse, buy, and test out by integrating into your workspace.

Apps can range from functional to just plain fun and each has a different means of assisting the efficiency and enjoyability of communication in your channels. The Slack App Directory looks as in the following screenshot on your desktop browser:

Figure 12.1 – The Slack App Directory can be found at https://slack.com/apps

The directory's main purpose is to help users discover apps. If you've created an app you think will be useful if discovered by others, you would then decide to submit it to the App Directory. Your app can only be used by your team in your workspace if it...