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Things You Can Do by Integrating with Slack

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Written by Yuki Omori
Updated over 5 months ago

Overview

With Yoom, you can post messages and files to Slack, create new channels, etc.

In addition, you can detect posts made to specific channels in Slack and retrieve and utilize the post content and files.

What you can do

  • Launch Yoom when a message/file is posted to a specific channel

  • Automatically post to a specific channel/direct message

  • Create a new channel, retrieve a channel list

  • Retrieve a list of users, invite users to channels

What you cannot do

  • Launch Flowbot by stamping

  • Bulk download multiple files

About Slack features

  1. In Slack, the post content is specified by the timestamp.

  2. Slack timestamps are represented in UNIX time. (For how to convert, see here.)

List of actions

Trigger action

Launch condition

When a new message is posted to the channel

If a new post is made to a specific channel within the start interval,

Flowbot is launched one item at a time for each thread.

When a file is posted to the channel

If a new file is posted to a specific channel within the start interval,

Flowbot is launched one item at a time for each file.

Actions integrated with the app

Action details

Send a message to a channel

You can send a message to a specific channel.

In order to post to a private channel,

you must meet the following conditions:

  • The Yoom app is integrated with the private channel

  • The integrated Slack account is participating in that channel

Send a direct message

You can send a message to a specific user.

Send a file

You can send files to a specific channel.

Retrieve member IDs in a channel

You can retrieve the IDs of members who are participating in a specific channel.

Create a channel

You can create a new channel.

Creating a private channel requires

Slack permission to create private channels.

Invite members to a channel

You can add members to a specific channel. (Allows multiple members)

Retrieve the list of user groups

You can retrieve a list of group IDs and group names

registered in Slack.

Send a message to a thread

You can send a message to the thread of

messages sent via Yoom or messages acquired by triggers.

Archive a channel

You can archive a specific channel.

For archiving, please check here.

Retrieve thread content of a conversation

By specifying the timestamp of the first post in a specific channel,

you can retrieve the content of the conversation thread.

Retrieve a list of channels

You can retrieve a list of up to 100 channels that are not archived.

Remove a user from a private channel

You can remove a specific member from a private channel.

Download a posted file

You can download images from the download link obtained by

“When a file is posted to the channel,” etc.

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