Procedures

Automation procedures in the Slack BDK Book.

Make sure to add the Slack BDK Book to your agent before using these automation procedures.

to read the (item's messages)

FILTER - CAPABLE

Read messages from a channel.

Input Concepts

Concept	Description	Type	Required	Default Value
item	The channel or user to read messages from	slack channel or slack user	Yes

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
item's messages	List of messages retrieved successfully	slack message

Examples

Read messages from Slack

retrieve a channel from slack
    the channel name is "general"
read the channel's messages whose timestamp is lower than "2023-01-01"

to retrieve a (channel) from slack

Retrieve a channel from Slack.

Input Concepts

Concept	Description	Type	Required	Default Value
channel name	The name of the channel to retrieve	text	Yes

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
channel	Details of the channel retrieved successfully	slack channel

Examples

Retrieve the channel from Slack

retrieve the channel from slack
    the channel name is "general"

to retrieve a (user) from slack

Retrieve a user from Slack.

Input Concepts

Concept	Description	Type	Required	Default Value
user name	The name of the user to retrieve	text	Yes

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
user	Details of the user retrieved successfully	slack user

Examples

Retrieve the user from Slack

retrieve the user from slack
    the user name is "John Doe"

to send message to an item

Send a message to a channel or user.

Input Concepts

Concept	Description	Type	Required	Default Value
item	The channel or user to send the message to	slack channel or slack user	Yes
message	The message to send	text	Yes
blocks	The blocks to send	slack action block or slack context block or slack divider block or slack header block or slack image block or slack markdown block or slack section block	No
attachments	The attachments to send	slack attachment	No

Output Concepts

Concept	Description	Type
answer	Details of the message sent successfully	slack message

Examples

Send a message to Slack

retrieve the channel from slack
    the channel name is "general"
use the above as the channel
send message to the channel
    the message is "Hello, world!"
    the attachments are "image.png"