Enviar mensaje de Slack

This component represents Flowhunt’s Slack messages back to you. You can think of it as an output but for Slack instead of chat. It also lets you control where and how FlowHunt sends messages and who it notifies.

Using this component requires an active Slack Integration. If you haven’t integrated Slack yet, follow this guide.

Slack Send Message Component

The Slack Send Message component allows you to automatically send messages to Slack channels as part of your AI-driven workflow. This is especially useful for integrating notifications, alerts, or status updates into your processes, enabling seamless communication between your AI system and your team in Slack.

What Does the Component Do?

This component sends a custom message to a specified Slack channel or thread. It can be used to automate team communications, send results or summaries, or trigger alerts based on events or decisions made in your workflow. You can format the message in markdown, mention specific groups, and control message threading, giving you flexibility in how information is shared with your team.

Key Features

• Automated Slack Messaging: Sends messages to any Slack channel you choose.
• Markdown Support: Optionally formats messages using markdown for better readability.
• Mentions: Allows inclusion of mentions such as @everyone, @channel, or @here.
• Threading: Supports sending messages as replies in threads, keeping conversations organized.
• Workspace Selection: Integrate with different Slack workspaces as needed.

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Example Use Cases

• Alerting: Automatically notify your team of important events, such as errors, completed tasks, or new data arrivals.
• Reporting: Send scheduled summaries or reports directly to Slack channels.
• Conversational AI: Integrate a chatbot or assistant that communicates with users in Slack.

Why Is This Useful?

Integrating Slack messaging into your AI workflow bridges the gap between automated processes and human communication. It ensures your team is always informed, reduces manual messaging tasks, and can trigger faster responses to events detected by your AI system.

By using this component, you can keep your team in the loop effortlessly and make your AI workflows more interactive and responsive.

Component Settings

• Format as Markdown:
  If checked, the messages are formatted in Markdown. If unchecked, the messages have no formatting.

• Follow Up on Thread:
  Ensures FlowHunt answers within a message thread instead of new channel messages.

• Thread Timestamp:
  Allows you to limit all FlowHunt responses to a single thread.

• Mentions:
  FlowHunt will need to call on you from time to time. For example, when a chatbot user requests to be transferred to a human. FlowHunt will then get your attention by using the mention you’ve selected.

  • @everyone will notify everyone in the workspace
  • @channel will notify people who are members of the channel the Flow is active in
  • @here will only notify the channel members who are currently online

• Channel:
  Pick the channels to which you want to add FlowHunt.

• Workspace:
  Pick the workspace to which you want to add FlowHunt.

Picking the workspace and channels in necessary for the Flow to work. All other settings are optional.