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Sending messages to Slack

Sending messages to Slack

- [Instructor] Now that everything is working, it's time to take the workflow from inactive in testing mode to active, so I don't have to click execute workflow every time I want to send a message from Slack. To do that, I first need to go into the Slack Trigger and change the webhook URL from Test URL to Production URL, copy it, then go up into Slack API find the Event Subscriptions, and here I want to change the Request URL so that we are using the Production URL. You'll notice this one here says webhook-tests. This one says webhook. When I do that, I immediately get: "Your URL didn't respond with the value challenge parameter." That's because I need to take my workflow live. So I'll go here and toggle on Active. Click Got it, click Retry. Now it's verified. Click Save Changes. And now from Slack, I should be able to say, @Lookup Give me a list of everyone managed by Nitin. Now we wait for the process to execute. And when it's done, here's a list of everyone managed by Nitin, and…

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