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Joseph Petty Verified userVerified user

Sr. Developer Advocate

Appsmith

Slack Workflow Builder: Send Messages in 2 Simple Steps

Goal

This guide will cover: 

  • how to create a new workflow in Slack using a webhook trigger
  • how to trigger that workflow from Appsmith and send a message to a channel

Prerequisites

  • An Appsmith account

  • A Slack account, and a workspace you own or have permission to install workflows on

  1. Create a New Workflow in Slack

    First, create a new workflow in Slack, and set it up to send a message to a specific channel. 

  2. Create the Webhook API in Appsmith

    Next, create a new POST API in Appsmith, and sent a test message. 

     

    That's it! 

    Slack message test

    Just 2 simple steps to create the workflow and trigger it from Appsmith. 

Conclusion

Slack workflows also have integrations with SalesForce, Notion, Google Sheets, and a bunch of other services. With the workflow published and a POST API set up, you can now integrate Slack with Appsmith, and automate your team's business tasks more seamlessly. We'd love to hear how you're using Slack and Appsmith at work! Or if you have ideas for a tutorial, feel free to post below and request. 

Joseph Petty Verified userVerified user staff View joseph_appsmith's profile
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 21:07

I thought the webhooks were easy to set up for the most part. The UI was a little clunky when it came to saving the keys in the webhook body, though. Hoping they add support for adding a row to Airtable or Notion. What's everyone else's experience been so far? 

Ron Northcutt Verified userVerified user staff View ron's profile
Mon, 10/09/2023 - 09:35

This could be a great way to send an update or message as part of a workflow in a tool. For example, when someone changes the status of a ticket/order, or submits a form, or assigns a task. The app can easily send a message to a channel or person!

Joseph Petty Verified userVerified user staff View joseph_appsmith's profile
Mon, 10/09/2023 - 19:49

In reply to by ron

> This could be a great way to send an update or message as part of a workflow

Already thinking of tons of use cases. You could send data from a row in a database or API to a certain channel and tag a specific user, then prompt them to fill out a form. Then send an email, or update that row with the response. 

Ed Parsadanyan Verified userVerified user public View ed's profile
Mon, 10/09/2023 - 17:36

Thanks, nice automation!

From the engineering perspective all these workflows constantly being added into various products can become a kind of nightmare when used simultaneously without any control. If this is a personal automation, then fine. 

But for a company-wide or team-wide automations I'd suggest using as small number of platforms as possible and make a catalogue for automations. So, this catalogue works as a documentation for all the new custom workflows.

Joseph Petty Verified userVerified user staff View joseph_appsmith's profile
Mon, 10/09/2023 - 19:41

In reply to by ed

Funny you mention that, because just last week I was digging through Zapier, n8n, and every platform's integration section, trying to figure out which one had the automation I needed to update. It can be hard to keep track of when you have multiple platforms triggering different automations in the same ecosystem of tools. Definitely agree on trying to centralize as much as possible. But I can't resist trying out new automation tools, and this one looks promising!

Ron Northcutt Verified userVerified user staff View ron's profile
Tue, 10/10/2023 - 15:44

In reply to by ed

Do you know of an existing process or tool that is widely used for this? It is absolutely becoming a critical issue. Perhaps an Appsmith app could help?

Ed Parsadanyan Verified userVerified user public View ed's profile
Tue, 10/10/2023 - 19:43

In reply to by ron

Oh-oh, thanks for suggestion!

Last few weeks I was thinking about great concepts of DocsAsCode and DocOps. This is a kind of hot topic for technical writers for the last years.

I have an idea of making a catalogue of workflow via Appsmith and use n8n as an example. I first need to make a prototype and submit this to Hacktoberfest before going deep into details :D

Ron Northcutt Verified userVerified user staff View ron's profile
Wed, 10/11/2023 - 09:56

In reply to by ron

Awesome!

Kevin Blanco Verified userVerified user staff View kevinblanco's profile
Tue, 10/10/2023 - 13:41

Great tutorial Joseph!