Sends a message to a Slack workspace. This operation takes a few inputs that will build a simple message along with a bearer token and sends a message to the channel based on the input given. The operation also requires the user to create an app in the slack workspace. You can see more about this in the special considerations section below.

Environment/Instance Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description

Project Properties

Input Name	Input Code	Required	Description

Inputs

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description
Bearer Token	`FDSLACK_INP_BEARER_TOKEN`	Yes	Bearer token generated by slack after adding app to workspace. Your token will most likely start with xoxp. (String)
Channel Name or Id	`FDSLACK_INP_CHANNEL`	Yes	Name or Id of channel that the notification will be sent. For example, "random". Use user channel Id to send direct messages (String)
Send as Authed User	`FDSLACK_INP_AS_USER`	No	Enter true if you would like to send the slack notification as the authorized user. (Boolean)
Bot Username	`FDSLACK_INP_USERNAME`	No	Username for the bot that sends the notification. For example "FlexDeploy". (String)
Icon Emoji	`FDSLACK_INP_ICON_EMOJI`	No	The emoji that will be used as the icon for the bot. An example is ":chart_with_upwards_trend:" . A list of some of the emojis can be found here. If using this Send as Authed User input must be false. (String)
Icon URL	`FDSLACK_INP_ICON_URL`	No	The URL for the image that will be used as the icon for the bot. An example is " https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slack-files2/bot_icons/2019-12-27/874826668114_48.png". If using this Send as Authed User input must be false. (String)
Message Text	`FDSLACK_INP_TEXT`	Yes	Text for the message that will be sent. (String)

Outputs

Output Name	Description

Artifacts

This operation delegates the consume artifacts decision to the workflow developer.

Endpoint Selection

This operation delegates the selection to the workflow developer to determine.

Endpoint Execution

This operations delegates the execution to the workflow developer to decide

Special Considerations

This operation requires the user to create an app in the Slack workspace. This is very easy and can be done here. You will need to add the OAuth scope for chat:write:bot. After installing the app to your workspace, the bearer token can be found on the OAuth & Permissions page.

The message JSON must be formatted based on what the Slack API. To learn more about the formatting of the message payload you can find information here. If you want to learn about the different things you can add to your message you can find information here. You can also see the Slack API we use here.

Examples

First we will need to create an app in our workspace by going here

We will then select the workspace and go to the OAuth & Permissions page.

On the OAuth & Permissions page you will add the chat:write:bot OAuth scope and chat:write:user if you would like to send the messages as the authorized user that installed the app.

You will then go to the top of this page and install the app to your workspace. You will have to allow the app to send messages to your workspace. After doing that the bearer token can be found at the top of the OAuth & Permissions page.

You will then add that bearer token to the input for the plugin operation in your workflow.

Below is an example. This will send a message to a channel called flexdeploy-demo.

Below is the final result in the flexdeploy-demo channel.

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