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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Markovich
4.9 (10)
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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

4.9 (10)
By: Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Slack Overview
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Configuring a Slack API sandbox

While all of these APIs and Webhooks and Block Kit are amazing tools to utilize to help automate your workspace, sometimes it's hard to test them out on an already established Slack team. For many of these features, we've encouraged you to make sure the Zaps are connecting with the apps properly or the APIs are properly sending your desired text message into the right channel.

But, for the user, workspace owner, or admin that is trying to expand their knowledge in an already existing space, they may not have the leniency or availability to experiment with these tools before they need to be executed properly.

Enter sandbox

Sandbox is your playground and safe space to experiment and test your app against a Slack Enterprise Grid instance without fear of it messing up in production. Enterprise Grids exist for larger organizations and therefore can simulate multiple workspaces to appear like your actual enterprise company Slack account...

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