Slack

The Slack integration connects a workspace. Reliant acts as a bot, not as you: messages it posts come from the Reliant bot user, and your own Slack identity is never stored. You connect by installing the Reliant app in the workspace through Slack’s consent screen.

Add the bot to a channel

The bot can read and post only where it is a member. Invite it from the channel with /invite @Reliant. Posting to a channel it is not in fails with a “not in channel” error that says so, and event triggers only fire for conversations the bot is in.

Actions

Action	What it does
`slack/message.post@1`	Post to a channel, DM or thread. `channel` is required; give `text`, `blocks` or both
`slack/message.reply@1`	Reply in a message’s thread (`channel` and `thread_ts` required)
`slack/message.update@1`	Edit a message the bot posted
`slack/reaction.add@1`	React to a message with an emoji
`slack/user.lookup_by_email@1`	Find a workspace member by email
`slack/conversations.list@1`	Channels the bot can see, with their ids
`slack/conversations.history@1`	Recent messages in a channel, newest first. Thread replies are not included, only each thread’s parent

Channels are identified by id (like C0123ABCD), not by name; use conversations.list to find one. A message’s ts identifies it, and replying in its thread means passing that value as thread_ts.

Events

`events` value	Fires when
`message.channels`, `message.groups`, `message.im`, `message.mpim`	A person posts in a public channel, private channel, DM with the bot or group DM. List the ones you want
`app_mention`	Someone @-mentions the bot
`reaction_added`	Someone adds an emoji reaction

Messages posted by bots, including Reliant’s own, never fire, so a workflow that posts cannot trigger itself. Edits and deletions do not fire either. You can match on channel, user, thread_ts and (for messages) channel_type and subtype; for reactions, reaction (the emoji name without colons) and item_user. An attribute Slack leaves out is the empty string.

Example: answer when the bot is mentioned

name: slack-ask
description: Answer when someone mentions the bot, in the same thread
entry: [answer]

triggers:
  - name: mentioned
    integration:
      integration: slack
      events: [app_mention]
      match:
        channel: C0123ABCD

nodes:
  - id: answer
    type: action
    uses: slack/message.reply@1
    with:
      channel: "{{ trigger.payload.data.channel }}"
      thread_ts: "{{ trigger.payload.data.ts }}"
      text: "On it."

An event reaches a trigger only through a Slack connection to the same workspace it came from.

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Example: answer when the bot is mentioned

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