Sending Slack Messages

Deprecated Book

The First Edition Slack Book is deprecated. Agents that have already learned this Book will continue to function. For all new automations, please use the BDK version of the Book instead.

To send a message to a Slack channel or user, you need to specify the recipient and the message content.

Example 1:

send a slack message to "general" with
  the message is "Hello, world!"

This example demonstrates how to send a simple "Hello, world!" message to the "general" channel on Slack.

Example 2:

send a slack message to "john_doe" with
  the message is "Please review the attached document."
  the attachment is "s3://mybucket/documents/review.pdf"

This example shows how to send a message to a user named "john_doe" with a request to review a document. The document is attached via a link to an S3 bucket.