Slack via 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: .
Anyone with this URL can post to your channel, so never put it in the file. Store it as a constant, for example . You can set it with .

Then create the API call notification. Save it as . Its name must match the name you list under in step 2:

---
name: slack_sales_request
format: http
request_headers: '{ "Content-Type": "application/json" }'
request_type: POST
to: '{{ context.constants.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}'
---
{
	"text": "New Contact on growthgardens.com!"
}

Step 2: Add the API call notification to a form

Add the following to the front matter on your form:

api_call_notifications:
- slack_sales_request

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

---
name: enquirer_signup
resource: User
fields:
  email:
  password:
api_call_notifications:
  - slack_sales_request
---