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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

Getting the most out of Slackbot

Now that you understand what Slackbot is, it’s time to implement it in your workspace. Your bot is now programmed to react to you and your team members, but it doesn’t yet have anything to do with the selected information it’s collecting through the event types. This is where things get tricky.

If you’re not a coder yourself or advanced in the technology, we’re going to discuss the most basic way to create app code that will help your bot receive and respond to events. In this section, we’ll focus on learning how to set your bot up to respond to events and mentions, understand actions, and automate responses, as well as setting personalized reminders and tasks.

For more information on more complex coding for your bots, head to Slack’s APIs help page: (https://api.slack.com/bot-users).

How to get the most out of Slackbot

Slackbot is a bot of many talents. Depending on the needs of your company...

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