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Building Slack Bots, Commands, and Workflows

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Slack is a growing hub for collaboration. Beyond just team messaging, Slack lets you build powerful extensions that turn it into an interface to all of the tools and applications that your team uses. Through bots, slash commands, automated workflows, and notifications, you can easily make yourself and your team Slack power users.

The best Slack apps are the ones perfectly adapted to your needs. The Slack App Directory has over 15k listings, but Slack workspaces use over 450k custom integrations every week. One size doesn't fit all. When you want to build a Slack extension that's tailored to your specific needs, Transposit handles the overhead so you get to focus on the fun. Imagine connecting Slack to AWS, Jira, or CircleCI without worrying about auth!

The Transposit integration with Slack bots is a wrapper for customizing how your team interacts with Slack. Transposit lets you connect a highly customized Slack experience into all the other services and technologies that your team will work with in combination with activities and runbooks.

Slash Commands - read more
Bots - read more
Workflows - read more
Notifications - read more

Key features#

Managed authentication 🔐
Your Slack integrations need to work with cloud services on behalf of your users. Transposit manages users, their credentials, refreshing tokens, and storing them securely.
User customization 🎨
When you’re building a custom Slack integration you want it to be, well, custom! Transposit gives a simple mechanism to let users customize: specify a Jira query, pick a Google calendar, add a phone number for SMS alerts.
Broad API support 📱
Connect and authenticate in seconds to the services you use. Experiment interactively rather than scouring documentation. Check out the growing list of connectors here.
Severless 🚀
Build your logic and let Transposit host it for you. Build and deploy a bot for your entire team in minutes. Really.

As you put together your Slack bots, you'll find the Block Kit Builder helpful.

Sample application#

Here's a starting point. Try it out, view the code, fork a copy, customize to suit your needs.

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Alerts Bot

When you type /incident in Slack, a dialog appears for adding an incident, which then appears in the Transposit activity feed, where an activity can be created from it.

View code

Next steps#

  • Slash commands: Build custom commands that integrate with your other apps.
  • Chatbots: Build bots that chime in with useful info or can hold up their end of a conversation.
  • Workflows: Build workflows, elevating important decisions and automating the rest.
  • Notifications: Consolidate notifications in Slack; provide contextual info and actions.