- What is your feature/integration request?
Ability to export to a Slack Channel or DM - What problem would this feature/integration solve?
This would enable multiple people to review the results of an automation more efficiently then email. - How do you solve/workaround this problem today?
Email with attachment
@Sam_Floyd – would love a native integration to make this easier, but you can use the API export to post to Slack. I worked on this recipe a while back: https://parabola.io/recipes/intercom-customer-engagement-summary.
What you’ll need to do:
- Create a column called “text” (with the message you want to send)
- You’ll need to create a Webhooks integration in Slack here: https://slack.com/apps/A0F7XDUAZ-incoming-webhooks.
- Use the
API Exportstep: copy the API endpoint URL from Slack and make sure to include this at the end of the link: “?parse=full”.
Let me know if that works! Here to help if you run into any issues.
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Can confirm this approach works well for simple notifications to channels.
It’s not going to give you an option for delivery of some sort of result payload like a CSV attachment.
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@andrew awesome thank you for the extra docs! Very helpful
No problem @Sam_Floyd! Let us know if you run into anything else 
Hi @andrew, I tried your very helpful steps and got an error stating “invalid_payload”. I created a column called “text” which has about 10 rows and the API endpoint url is the slack webhook url with ?parse=full added at the end.
Would you happen to know what might be causing the issue?
Figured out the issue. Adding this in the request body did the trick:
{
“text”: “{text}”
}
@Archit glad you were able to get this working!
For future people who stumble upon this post, feel free to use our “Slack configuration card” seen below, which provides a guide for sending a message in Slack from Parabola.
Simply paste this snippet into your builder and the card will populate: parabola:cb:f7f7815f9fc24bb39f10f7aa7b533cc5 (how to paste snippet)
Hope this helps – feel free to reach out with any questions!
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