Slack connection

Slack is a web-based, real-time, and archived messaging app for your team.

Prerequisite

Before you can connect to Slack connection, you will need to enable the AppConnect connection. This will enable the connection to appear in the list of available connectors for you to use.

Enabling Slack on Cloud

This connection is only available through the Toronto data center and is only available for a managed cloud service provider (MCSP).

If you have created a platform assets catalog, the Slack connector should automatically appear in the list of available connectors.

For more information on creating the platform assets catalog, see Creating the Platform assets catalog.

Create a connection to IBM Slack

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

  • Authentication type:
    • BASIC_OAUTH:
      • Access token: The basic access token to be used to authenticate AppConnect with your Slack content.

Slack setup

Quickstart guide

Supported file types

The Slack connection supports structured and unstructured file formats.

The connection supports the following structured file types: Avro, CSV, Delimited text, Excel, JSON, ORC, Parquet, SAS, SAV, SHP, and XML.

The connection supports modes for reading and writing binary data. These modes can be used to read and write the unstructured data formats such as: DOC, DOCX, MD, PDF, PPT, PPTX, and TXT.

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