Slack

Slack is a team communication tool, that brings together all of your team communications in one place, instantly searchable and available wherever you go.

This connector is available in the following products and regions:

Service Class Regions
Logic Apps Standard All Logic Apps regions except the following:
     -   Azure China regions
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Power Automate Standard All Power Automate regions except the following:
     -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
Power Apps Standard All Power Apps regions except the following:
     -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
Connector Metadata
Publisher Microsoft
Website https://slack.com/
Privacy policy https://slack.com/privacy-policy

Known Issues and Limitations

  1. As per the Slack API documentation, some Slack API methods that the connector uses will stop functioning in February 2021 and will not work with newly created apps after June 10th, 2020. So please use latest versions of below actions.

    Actions:

  2. Create a group is deprecated, please use latest version of Create a channel to create private channels.

  3. The maximum number of characters in a message is limited to 4000. For more details, please refer to Slack's official documentation.

Connector in-depth

For more information about the connector, see the in-depth section.

Throttling Limits

Name Calls Renewal Period
API calls per connection 100 60 seconds
Frequency of trigger polls 1 120 seconds

Actions

Create a channel

Create a channel in slack.

Create a channel [DEPRECATED]

This action has been deprecated. Please use Create a channel instead.

Create a channel in slack.

Create a group [DEPRECATED]

Creates a group in slack.

Join a channel [DEPRECATED]

This action has been deprecated. Please use Join a public channel instead.

Join a channel in slack.

Join a public channel

Join a public channel in slack.

List channels [DEPRECATED]

This action has been deprecated. Please use List public channels (Pagination support) instead.

List the channels in slack.

List public channels

List the public channels in slack.

List public channels (Pagination support) (Preview)

List the public channels in slack.

Post message (V2)

This operation is used to post a message to the specified channel.

Post message [DEPRECATED]

This action has been deprecated. Please use Post message (V2) instead.

This operation is used to post a message to the specified channel.

Set do not disturb

Set the do not disturb status for the user.

Create a channel

Create a channel in slack.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Name
name string

The name of the new channel.

Is Private channel?
is_private boolean

Channel is private or not

Returns

Create a channel [DEPRECATED]

This action has been deprecated. Please use Create a channel instead.

Create a channel in slack.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Name
name string

The name of the new channel.

Returns

Create a group [DEPRECATED]

Creates a group in slack.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Name
name string

The name of the group.

Returns

Name Path Type Description
Id
group.id string

The id of the group.

Name
group.name string

The name of the group.

Join a channel [DEPRECATED]

This action has been deprecated. Please use Join a public channel instead.

Join a channel in slack.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Name
name string

The name of the channel.

Returns

Join a public channel

Join a public channel in slack.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Channel Name
channel string

The name of the channel.

Returns

List channels [DEPRECATED]

This action has been deprecated. Please use List public channels (Pagination support) instead.

List the channels in slack.

Returns

List public channels

List the public channels in slack.

Returns

List public channels (Pagination support) (Preview)

List the public channels in slack.

Returns

Post message (V2)

This operation is used to post a message to the specified channel.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Channel Name
channel True string

Channel, private group, or IM channel to send message to. Can be a name(ex: #general) or an encoded ID.

Message Text
text True string

Body of the message to send. Slack API will truncate messages containing more than 40,000 characters. For formatting options, see https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting

Bot Name
username string

Name of the bot.

Post As User
as_user boolean

Pass true to post the message as the authenticated user, instead of as a bot.

Parse Mode
parse string

Change how messages are treated. For details, see https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting

Slack markup parsing
mrkdwn boolean

Slack markup parsing setting. Enabled by default.

Link Names
link_names integer

Find and link channel names and usernames.

Unfurl Links
unfurl_links boolean

Pass true to enable unfurling of primarily text-based content.

Unfurl Media
unfurl_media boolean

Pass false to disable unfurling of media content.

Icon Url
icon_url uri

URL to an image to use as an icon for this message.

Icon Emoji
icon_emoji string

Emoji to use as an icon for this message.

Returns

Details of the message posted to a Slack channel.

Post message [DEPRECATED]

This action has been deprecated. Please use Post message (V2) instead.

This operation is used to post a message to the specified channel.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Channel Name
channel True string

Channel, private group, or IM channel to send message to. Can be a name(ex: #general) or an encoded ID.

Message Text
text True string

Body of the message to send (less than 4000 characters). For formatting options, see https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting.

Bot Name
username string

Name of the bot.

Post As User
as_user boolean

Pass true to post the message as the authenticated user, instead of as a bot.

Parse Mode
parse string

Change how messages are treated. For details, see https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting.

Link Names
link_names integer

Find and link channel names and usernames.

Unfurl Links
unfurl_links boolean

Pass true to enable unfurling of primarily text-based content.

Unfurl Media
unfurl_media boolean

Pass false to disable unfurling of media content.

Icon Url
icon_url uri

URL to an image to use as an icon for this message.

Icon Emoji
icon_emoji string

Emoji to use as an icon for this message.

Returns

Name Path Type Description
Success Result
ok boolean

Indicates if the operation was successful.

Channel
channel string

The channel which the message was posted to.

Created Date-Time
ts string

yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffZ

Message Text
message.text string

Body of the message.

Message Id
message.id string

Unique identifier of the message.

Creator Id
message.user string

Unique identifier of the user who posted the message.

Created Time
message.created integer

Unix timestamp for when the message is created.

Is Deleted
message.is_user-deleted boolean

Whether or not the message has been deleted.

Error Messages
error string

Details of the error messages, if any.

Set do not disturb

Set the do not disturb status for the user.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Number of minutes
num_minutes string

The number of minutes to set do not disturb.

Returns

Name Path Type Description
Snooze Enabled
snooze_enabled boolean

Whether snooze is enabled.

Triggers

When a file is created

When a file is created

When a file is created

When a file is created

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Channel
channel True string

The name of the channel.

Returns

Name Path Type Description
Id
id string

Id of the file

Created
created integer

When the file was created.

Name
name string

The name of the file.

Title
title string

The title of the file.

Definitions

Channel

The Channel

Name Path Type Description
Id
id string

The id of the channel.

Name
name string

The name of channel.

ListChannels_Response

Name Path Type Description
channels
channels array of Channel

ListChannels_ResponseV3

Name Path Type Description
value
value array of Channel

CreateChannel_Response

Name Path Type Description
Channel
channel Channel

The Channel

JoinChannel_Response

Name Path Type Description
Already in channel
already_in_channel boolean

Whether the user is already in the channel or not.

Channel
channel Channel

The Channel

JoinChannel_ResponseV2

Name Path Type Description
Channel
channel Channel

The Channel

Warning
warning string

Whether the user is already in the channel or not.

PostMessageResponse

Details of the message posted to a Slack channel.

Name Path Type Description
Success Result
ok boolean

Indicates if the operation was successful.

Channel
channel string

The channel which the message was posted to.

Created Time
ts string

Unix timestamp for when the message was created.

Message Type
message.type string

Type of the message.

Message Text
message.text string

Body of the message.

Created Time
message.ts string

Unix timestamp for when the message was created.

Error Messages
error string

Details of the error messages, if any.