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

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Using existing frameworks

Creating your bots from scratch can be a difficult process. There's a lot of technical factors that come into play that can be jumbled or inputted incorrectly, which can affect the entirety of the final message/action product.

Frameworks exist to make your life easier.

Slack's frameworks serve as a kind of guideline for your bots. You have the option to pick and choose the outline you want to use and then customize it to your needs. Change a text message to read the announcement you're trying to make. Alternate the time and date in your date picker to match your meeting details. All of these options are available to you more quickly and easily when you choose to utilize frameworks.

To do this, it helps to know where you can access these pre-existing frameworks. In this section, we'll discuss the two most common outlets for finding existing code to alter: Block Kit and Bolt.