Hello,
I want to take advantage of Slack Block Kit Builder and add some buttons to my Slack messages that are generated through Zapier.
This is probably something obvious but I coudln’t find any info on this. How to I actually send those Slack messages which are Json blocks through Zapier so that they’re parsed in slack instead of showing up as a message?
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Hi,
I want to refresh the topic, because it focused on links and i have a problem with send simple block message to slack with data from Google Sheet.
I want to send simple message with “sections” filled with values from Google Sheet cells:
{
"blocks": [
{
"type": "divider"
},
{
"type": "section",
"text": {
"type": "plain_text",
"text": "[VALUE FROM GOOGLE SHEET CELL]",
"emoji": true
}
},
{
"type": "section",
"fields": [
{
"type": "plain_text",
"text": "*[VALUE FROM GOOGLE SHEET CELL]*",
"emoji": true
},
{
"type": "plain_text",
"text": "*[VALUE FROM GOOGLE SHEET CELL]*",
"emoji": true
}
]
}
]
}How I can do this by Zapier?
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Hi
Good question.
Perhaps as an alternative to buttons you can use links: https://zapier.com/help/doc/tips-formatting-your-slack-messages#links
URL links are automatically hyperlinked in Slack without additional formatting.
To display link text instead of the URL:
<https://zapier.com|Link text>
Depending on your requirements you can look into using the Slack Workflow Builder: https://slack.com/help/articles/360035692513-Guide-to-Workflow-Builder
Otherwise, at this time, Slack buttons in messages require specific JSON structures to render correctly, so those would require use of the Slack Block Kit via the Slack API: https://api.slack.com/reference/block-kit/blocks
Is there really no other way? Having to use a completely custom Code action makes this impractical. All I want is to be able to create buttons in the slack message. Ultimately I want to offer this as a user template, but forcing a user to set up auth in the code block for slack is impractical.
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Hey
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Hi
You’ll need to use the Webhooks app in your Zap: https://zapier.com/apps/webhook/integrations
OR
You can try using a Code step: https://zapier.com/apps/code/help
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