In Slack, messages inhabit conversations. You can read the overview guides for those topics to get a better sense of what is possible, but for now let's learn about the environment that messages exist in. Slack apps can publish new messages, and retrieve or modify existing ones.Īpps also have access to a range of composition and interactivity options for controlling the look and feel of messages. For example, this is a message:Īt a basic level, messages are simply a series of attributes which describe and contain content. There can be a huge variation in how messages appear. For instructions on sending and reading messages within Slack itself, consult this help center article. These instructions pertain to content posted programmatically to Slack. In this overview we're going to give you a quick trip through the basics of doing these things, and an introduction to all the terminology that surrounds messaging. The core functionality of most Slack apps will involve the publication or consumption of messages. They can exist merely to notify, or they can invite and await response. They have many shapes and sizes, varying levels of complexity. Messages are the oxygen that keeps conversations alive.
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