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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Testing and pushing your bot live

Once your app is published and your bot is designed to your standards, the next step is to publish your work for your Slack world to see, right? Seemingly, yes, this would be the proper next step. But, as we've learned in previous chapters, there are many instances in which your bot may not have been coded or built properly, especially when being built from scratch, and could not function as it's supposed to.

Everybody makes mistakes, and that's why we want to prep for these mistakes in advance so that they don't have a negative effect on work happening in real time in our workspaces. We do this through testing.

Testing

Slack recommends that you always test out your app before putting it into action. From Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandbox, we know that a sandbox is the ultimate one-stop shop for testing out your apps and bots. A sandbox works effectively for big organizations as a workspace to see how...