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"memoryDataStore is not a constructor" error in node js
I am starting slack development with node.
Following a tutorial I got an error message . I tried several sources but I still cannot spot my mistake
I am simply trying to print the bot
and channel names
the version of node installed is 10…

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Using Slack slash command to run local app
I want to write a Slack command to open Skype For Business (SfB).
The command will be something along the lines of:
/sfb my.colleague@company.com
SfB recognises the sip protocol, so I can type sip:my.colleague@company.com in my browser and it will…

Kev
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How to make Slack Bot not respond to all the messages in the private group?
I want my bot to respond only if anyone mentions its name like @mybot.
How to achieve this?

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Slack integration: link slack user and user from 3rd party Web service
I have some Web Service (for example, Twitter). This service already has users, so every user has account.
I want to provide ability for user to enter something like that in slack:
/tweet "Amazing tweet sent from Slack"
And this tweet should…

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I want to turn a slash command in Slack into an interactive button
I have a Slack channel created with a Slack app. In the channel, I can enter /leave and I leave the channel, but I want to have an interactive button in my app that will do the same thing as /leave so a user just needs to click the button instead of…

Rizzo95
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Slack sends invalid, mal-formed JSON data after Dialog interaction
I am working on a slash command that'll invoke a dialog.
$dialog = [
'callback_id' => 'ryde-46e2b0',
'title' => 'Request a Ride',
'submit_label' => 'Request',
'elements' => [
[
'type' =>…

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Get selected values from message menu or drop-down on click of a button in a slack interactive message or attachment
I have a slack message with two actions:
Message Menu, i.e. dropdown
Button
I would like to:
Select a value from the message menu or drop-down.
Click the button.
On clicking this button, I would like to get the value of the selected value from…

Omkar Joshi
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Is it okay to disable CSRF for slack slash command api mad in Django?
Is it disabling CSRF functionality the best practice for Slack slash command server?
I want to call an API view function in Django by a Slack slash command, for example, /test.
When I call the URL for the view function with any browser (so it is a…

Sangwoong Yoon
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Need to run part of code after response send to slack
Wrote a flask app which do some job (can last up to 3 hours) and then sends response to slack via slack incoming webhook. application is being called via slack slash command, to which I must response within 3000ms, otherwise it throws an timeout…

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Send response as code snippet for slack slash command
I am creating a slack slash command and I want to return a javascript object (a JSON response from another api call) as code.
---EDIT---
I can send a markdown response using the code below. The issue now is that I cannot show JSON / JavaScript…

cbutler
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Configure message for new user in slack group
I have a slack group and I want to show some welcome message and rules and regulations to follow to new members. Is there a way to do it?
Sorry if I have asked it on wrong platform, in this case where can I ask such question?

kapil sarwat
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How to make sure that slack won't send a message even if I press enter?
Looks like most slack questions deal with sending issues. I have the opposite.
In the olden days, when I was using outlook emails, I would simply add a xxx@xxx.com in the sender's list. That way, even if I click send by mistake, the mail won't be…

Badri Narayan
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Slack bot request validation not working for button actions.If we have bold formatting tag * in the block kit U
I have created a bot response using block-kit UI.
In the message included one text message and button elements.For the text I applied bold formatting using *. So the message shown in the slack channel with the bold character as of now it is fine .…

Pandari Ch
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Slack bot private channel post messages
I'm developing a slack bot for my company. I can't find any information on this topic - when a user types slash command in private channel how to make similar response from slackbot To use /github, add @GitHub to this conversation.?

Ярослав Кошкарев
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Send user config to slack of an individual user
Related to my assigned project, I wrote a bash script to implement the task.
For the user account and secret/hash creation part, the manager told me to find a way to send the user config file content directly to the individual user's slack(not a…

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