Stay On Top of Slack Messages with Zapier

Create Zap

Step 1 - Select “Create Zap” in left or right upper corner

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Step 2 - Search for Slack and Select

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Step 3 - Choose your Trigger Event

There are a few ways you can choose to trigger a Zap. I use the following two Triggers:

New Reaction Added - Create a Zap only for a certain channel, benefit here is it collects the Slack URL, but doesn’t include the content of the slack message.

New Pushed Message - I like this as I can create a Zap for anything on Slack, versus creating multiple zaps. This trigger captures the body of the first message, but not the slack URL. I created a hack for this though. Since the steps are very similar so I’ll be walking you through how to create a Pushed Message Trigger as there one complicated step that is different.

Select “New Pushed Message”

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Step 4 - Select your Connected Slack Account

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Step 5 - Find your Connected Account

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Step 6 - Test Trigger

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Step 7 - Add Action - Create Row in Coda

Select Coda for App

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Step 8 - Select Trigger Event “New Row”

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Step 9 - Choose Coda Connection

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Step 10 - Select Doc and Table

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Step 11 - Set up Action

Sync all the necessary info you would like to be collected.

For the Link, there is no Slack URL as an option, so I copied a few example Slack URLs to see if I can create the URL manually. Note: Not all URLs are universally the same, most of the messages links are formatted this way so it works 75% of the time, your link can vary depending on your set up

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Step 12 - Test Trigger

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Step 13 - Success!

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Step 14 - Test in Slack

You can now try testing the Zap by going to any Slack message, select the 3 dots to open more options, and select “push to Zapier”. You should see your Zap name pop up that you created.

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