I’m trying to send a message to slack and then capture the permalink in an airtable record, but the message permalink is sending me to a “the requested file cannot be found”
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Slack message url not working
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Best answer by Troy Tessalone
You can try testing without a file attachment to see if you get a different response behavior.
Some Zap steps are actually a combo of underlying API requests.
e.g. Send message + attach file to message
In your case, it may be returning the last API request response.
You may need to send a message, then send another message as a thread reply to include the file, and adjust your Zap steps accordingly.
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Hi
Are you trying to track “file_upload” message types as shown in your screenshot?
The file may have been deleted in Slack.
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Thanks
The message does have a file attached, but it also has normal message text - I agree that the url looks like its for the file and not the message but I’m not sure what to do about it!
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Make sure a Filter step or a Path Filter condition is used to exclude those with Message Type = file_upload
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I’ll check that out!
But also,
To be clear, I am adding a file as an attachment (see below), but why would it only show me the file upload URLs instead of the links for the original message. Is this just a bug?
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You can try testing without a file attachment to see if you get a different response behavior.
Some Zap steps are actually a combo of underlying API requests.
e.g. Send message + attach file to message
In your case, it may be returning the last API request response.
You may need to send a message, then send another message as a thread reply to include the file, and adjust your Zap steps accordingly.
⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
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Yes that seems to be exactly what is going on
ty!
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