Integrating Slack Using API Call Notifications

This guide demonstrates creating a Slack integration for Insites using API call notifications.

Prerequisites

To understand this tutorial, you must be familiar with creating API call notifications. You must also have access to a Slack workspace, enabled webhooks, and create an incoming webhook. In addition, you will need the webhook URL for creating the API call notification.

Creating an API Call Notification
Creating an Incoming Webhook (Slack Documentation)

Steps

Integrating Slack using API Call Notifications is a two-step process:

Step 1: Create an API call notification
Step 2: Add the API call notification to a form

Step 1: Create an API call notification

Your webhook URL looks similar to this: .
Create an API Call Notification using your webhook URL (replace placeholder):

Note

You can customise your message in Slack. Learn more on the page that provided you with your webhook URL or on api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks

Step 2: Add the API call notification to a form

Add the following to the front matter on your form:

The front matter of the form we used in this example: