# Push to Slack - API - formating

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/push-to-slack-api-formating/1963>\
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**Tags:** Using-APIs\
**Created:** [August 10, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/push-to-slack-api-formating/1963 "2021-08-10T14:04:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joseph\_DiGiuseppe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Joseph\_DiGiuseppe](https://community.parabola.io/u/Joseph_DiGiuseppe)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/push-to-slack-api-formating/1963/1 "2021-08-10T14:04:20Z")

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I am trying to push a report to slack, but there are 52 lines and it results in 52 consecutive messages. Is there a way to send a table to slack through the API?

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**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/daniel/32/732_2.png) [@daniel](https://community.parabola.io/u/daniel)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/push-to-slack-api-formating/1963/2 "2021-08-10T19:25:30Z")

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Hi @Joseph_DiGiuseppe,

Taking a look at Slack’s [formatting documents](https://api.slack.com/reference/surfaces/formatting), you’re unable to send a table as a message type. Instead, you may benefit from adding line breaks to your JSON using line breaks delimited by `\n`.

For example, if you send the following:

`This is a line of text.\nAnd this is another one.`

It will appear as a single message with multiple line breaks:

`This is a line of text.`  
`And this is another one.`

To format your JSON, try using the “Merge duplicate rows” step to merge your message values with a unique identifier. You can set the delimiter to `\n`, and reference the updated column as your new message.

Let me know if that points you in the right direction.

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**Author:** ![Joseph\_DiGiuseppe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Joseph\_DiGiuseppe](https://community.parabola.io/u/Joseph_DiGiuseppe)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/push-to-slack-api-formating/1963/3 "2021-08-10T20:05:45Z")

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Amazing. Thanks for the help. This will work for sure