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Zap Fails Trying to Add Members to Newly Created Slack Channel


I’ve created my very first Zap to do the following (see attached):

  1. Run on a specific day of the month
  2. Get the next month’s occurrence and format (e.g., July 18, 2024 → August 2024)
  3. Create a new, private Slack channel (my-channel-prefix-august-2024)
  4. Delay (I added this because I thought it might be needed for Slack to create the channel and return to Zapier)
  5. Invite specific members to the Slack channel ← fails here (Error from Slack: channel_not_found)

The channel is created but fails inviting the specified members. I’ve seen similar posts but they’re somewhat dated so the UI is different. Can anyone share their thoughts on what I can do to resolve this?

Many Thanks,

Paul

 

 

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Hi @Paul T. 

You do not need the Delay step.

You need to map the Channel ID from Step 3, rather than the Channel Name.

 

Thank you so much Troy! This solved my problem.

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