Slack

Slack is a team communication tool, that brings together all of your team communications in one place, instantly searchable and available wherever you go.

This connector is available in the following products and regions:

Service	Class	Regions
Logic Apps	Standard	All Logic Apps regions except the following:      -   Azure China regions      -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Power Automate	Standard	All Power Automate regions except the following:      -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
Power Apps	Standard	All Power Apps regions except the following:      -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet

Contact
Name	Microsoft
URL	Microsoft LogicApps Support Microsoft Power Automate Support Microsoft Power Apps Support

Connector Metadata
Publisher	Microsoft
Website	https://slack.com/
Privacy policy	https://slack.com/privacy-policy

Known Issues and Limitations

1. As per the Slack API documentation, some Slack API methods that the connector uses will stop functioning in February 2021 and will not work with newly created apps after June 10th, 2020. So please use latest versions of below actions.

   Actions:

   • Create a channel
   • Join a public channel
   • List public channels

2. Create a group is deprecated, please use latest version of Create a channel to create private channels.

3. The maximum number of characters in a message is limited to 4000. For more details, please refer to Slack's official documentation.

Connector in-depth

For more information about the connector, see the in-depth section.

Throttling Limits

Name	Calls	Renewal Period
API calls per connection	100	60 seconds
Frequency of trigger polls	1	120 seconds

Actions

Create a channel	Create a channel in slack.
Create a channel [DEPRECATED]	This action has been deprecated. Please use Create a channel instead. Create a channel in slack.
Create a group [DEPRECATED]	Creates a group in slack.
Join a channel [DEPRECATED]	This action has been deprecated. Please use Join a public channel instead. Join a channel in slack.
Join a public channel	Join a public channel in slack.
List channels [DEPRECATED]	This action has been deprecated. Please use List public channels (Pagination support) instead. List the channels in slack.
List public channels	List the public channels in slack.
List public channels (Pagination support) (Preview)	List the public channels in slack.
Post message (V2)	This operation is used to post a message to the specified channel.
Post message [DEPRECATED]	This action has been deprecated. Please use Post message (V2) instead. This operation is used to post a message to the specified channel.
Set do not disturb	Set the do not disturb status for the user.

Create a channel

Operation ID:

CreateChannel_V2

Create a channel in slack.

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Name	name		string	The name of the new channel.
Is Private channel?	is_private		boolean	Channel is private or not

Returns

Body

CreateChannel_Response

Create a channel [DEPRECATED]

Operation ID:

CreateChannel

This action has been deprecated. Please use Create a channel instead.

Create a channel in slack.

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Name	name		string	The name of the new channel.

Returns

Body

CreateChannel_Response

Create a group [DEPRECATED]

Operation ID:

CreateGroup

Creates a group in slack.

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Name	name		string	The name of the group.

Returns

Name	Path	Type	Description
Id	group.id	string	The id of the group.
Name	group.name	string	The name of the group.

Join a channel [DEPRECATED]

Operation ID:

JoinChannel

This action has been deprecated. Please use Join a public channel instead.

Join a channel in slack.

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Name	name		string	The name of the channel.

Returns

Body

JoinChannel_Response

Join a public channel

Operation ID:

JoinChannel_V2

Join a public channel in slack.

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Channel Name	channel		string	The name of the channel.

Returns

Body

JoinChannel_ResponseV2

List channels [DEPRECATED]

Operation ID:

ListChannels

This action has been deprecated. Please use List public channels (Pagination support) instead.

List the channels in slack.

Returns

Body

ListChannels_Response

List public channels

Operation ID:

ListChannels_V2

List the public channels in slack.

Returns

Body

ListChannels_Response

List public channels (Pagination support) (Preview)

Operation ID:

ListChannels_V3

List the public channels in slack.

Returns

Body

ListChannels_ResponseV3

Post message (V2)

Operation ID:

PostMessage_V2

This operation is used to post a message to the specified channel.

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Channel Name	channel	True	string	Channel, private group, or IM channel to send message to. Can be a name(ex: #general) or an encoded ID.
Message Text	text	True	string	Body of the message to send. Slack API will truncate messages containing more than 40,000 characters. For formatting options, see https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting
Bot Name	username		string	Name of the bot.
Post As User	as_user		boolean	Pass true to post the message as the authenticated user, instead of as a bot.
Parse Mode	parse		string	Change how messages are treated. For details, see https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting
Slack markup parsing	mrkdwn		boolean	Slack markup parsing setting. Enabled by default.
Link Names	link_names		integer	Find and link channel names and usernames.
Unfurl Links	unfurl_links		boolean	Pass true to enable unfurling of primarily text-based content.
Unfurl Media	unfurl_media		boolean	Pass false to disable unfurling of media content.
Icon Url	icon_url		uri	URL to an image to use as an icon for this message.
Icon Emoji	icon_emoji		string	Emoji to use as an icon for this message.

Returns

Details of the message posted to a Slack channel.

Body

PostMessageResponse

Post message [DEPRECATED]

Operation ID:

PostMessage

This action has been deprecated. Please use Post message (V2) instead.

This operation is used to post a message to the specified channel.

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Channel Name	channel	True	string	Channel, private group, or IM channel to send message to. Can be a name(ex: #general) or an encoded ID.
Message Text	text	True	string	Body of the message to send (less than 4000 characters). For formatting options, see https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting.
Bot Name	username		string	Name of the bot.
Post As User	as_user		boolean	Pass true to post the message as the authenticated user, instead of as a bot.
Parse Mode	parse		string	Change how messages are treated. For details, see https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting.
Link Names	link_names		integer	Find and link channel names and usernames.
Unfurl Links	unfurl_links		boolean	Pass true to enable unfurling of primarily text-based content.
Unfurl Media	unfurl_media		boolean	Pass false to disable unfurling of media content.
Icon Url	icon_url		uri	URL to an image to use as an icon for this message.
Icon Emoji	icon_emoji		string	Emoji to use as an icon for this message.

Returns

Name	Path	Type	Description
Success Result	ok	boolean	Indicates if the operation was successful.
Channel	channel	string	The channel which the message was posted to.
Created Date-Time	ts	string	yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffZ
Message Text	message.text	string	Body of the message.
Message Id	message.id	string	Unique identifier of the message.
Creator Id	message.user	string	Unique identifier of the user who posted the message.
Created Time	message.created	integer	Unix timestamp for when the message is created.
Is Deleted	message.is_user-deleted	boolean	Whether or not the message has been deleted.
Error Messages	error	string	Details of the error messages, if any.

Set do not disturb

Operation ID:

SetDND

Set the do not disturb status for the user.

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Number of minutes	num_minutes		string	The number of minutes to set do not disturb.

Returns

Name	Path	Type	Description
Snooze Enabled	snooze_enabled	boolean	Whether snooze is enabled.

Triggers

When a file is created

When a file is created

When a file is created

Operation ID:

OnNewFile

When a file is created

Parameters

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Channel	channel	True	string	The name of the channel.

Returns

Name	Path	Type	Description
Id	id	string	Id of the file
Created	created	integer	When the file was created.
Name	name	string	The name of the file.
Title	title	string	The title of the file.

Definitions

Channel

The Channel

Name	Path	Type	Description
Id	id	string	The id of the channel.
Name	name	string	The name of channel.

ListChannels_Response

Name	Path	Type	Description
channels	channels	array of Channel

ListChannels_ResponseV3

Name	Path	Type	Description
value	value	array of Channel

CreateChannel_Response

Name	Path	Type	Description
Channel	channel	Channel	The Channel

JoinChannel_Response

Name	Path	Type	Description
Already in channel	already_in_channel	boolean	Whether the user is already in the channel or not.
Channel	channel	Channel	The Channel

JoinChannel_ResponseV2

Name	Path	Type	Description
Channel	channel	Channel	The Channel
Warning	warning	string	Whether the user is already in the channel or not.

PostMessageResponse

Details of the message posted to a Slack channel.

Name	Path	Type	Description
Success Result	ok	boolean	Indicates if the operation was successful.
Channel	channel	string	The channel which the message was posted to.
Created Time	ts	string	Unix timestamp for when the message was created.
Message Type	message.type	string	Type of the message.
Message Text	message.text	string	Body of the message.
Created Time	message.ts	string	Unix timestamp for when the message was created.
Error Messages	error	string	Details of the error messages, if any.