Questions tagged [slack-dialog]
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How does one make Slack threads less narrow?
Threads would be a very nice feature of Slack, except that they are way too narrow and I can't find any way to configure their width.
Does anyone know how to expand a thread to make it take up all the screen real estate (within Slack)? Zooming in…

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We had some trouble connecting error when submitting slack dialog (Slack API)
I am building a slack app connected with a Symfony application that uses slash commands and dialogs as UI to create new users, accounts and projects and store them in a database.
I use a slash command to trigger a dialog with input fields and store…

Tara Van den Eede
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SlackBot OpenModal Error: "Missing Charset"
I want to make an api Call via Zapier to open a Modal in Slack.
But I always get the error:
ok: false
error: invalid_json
warning: missing_charset
response_metadata:
warnings:
1: missing_charset
This is my Request…

BlockchainProgrammer
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Slack view_submission Payload block_ids
I'm trying to get the submitted data from a slack modal payload (using Integromat) but I'm unable to match the fields as the field names (block_ids) and random and change on each submission.
Not sure where to start, is there something on the Slack…

Eric
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Unable to detect action from multi-user-select using Slack bolt
Below is a simple node slack app that displays the built in multi user select block element to a user. I want to handle the action when the user clicks the submit button in the input so I've set the action_id in the block and added an action…

D-Money
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Add date-picker to slack dialog?
I want to add date-picker elements to slack dialog. It is clear that from
documentation, we can only add input, text-area, and select elements.
Is there any hack to use date-picker in the slack dialog?

Subbu
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How to create message shortcut in slack app?
I am creating slack app using bolt javascript library, I want to create message shortcut and when the user clicks on that shortcut I want to capture the message details. how can I do that using slack's blot library for javascript?
like this

Harshith Gowda
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Is opening a popup iframe or webpage using slack API supported?
I am working on a slack app and I want it to open a iframe (or webpage) upon entering a slack command so that I can make REST requests and have more flexible styling options compared to what is offered in slack's dialog API.
Is opening a popup…

Matthew Keller
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Closing Slack Modal from AWS Lambda after data submission
I'm having trouble closing a Slack Modal from an AWS Lambda in NodeJs(14.x), getting a "We had some trouble connecting. Try again?" message. I have read several alternatives about returning an empty 200 ok message, but nothing seems to work.…

Anilkumar S.K
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Slack event API: send a message every time user opens the dialogue
I'm building a Slack bot app. I want every time a user opens the dialogue with the bot, the bot will automatically say something like "Hello! Please ask me a question". I think I should use the event API: https://api.slack.com/events to listen to…

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slack block add confirmation only for one option in static_select
Is it possible to have confirmation dialogue just on any one options from slack's static_select?
I'm at the situation where i have static_select drop-down with 3 options send, duplicate, delete.
And i just want confirmation dialogue to show up only…

Parse Shyam
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Use slack modal to update message
Here's my need : I want that, depending on a user's message (for instance, a message with an url, or some code, ...), a modal window (or an ephemeral message, or whatever) allows the user to select some keywords. These keywords will be added to the…

Julien.h
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Slack Dialog external data source filtering
I have a Slack dialog that has two SELECTs and both are pulling data from an external data source. However, the available options of the second SELECT are entirely depending on the selected value of the first SELECT. Is it possible that slack can…

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How to send channel messeges with data input from Slack modals
I'm trying to build a slack app that will enable publishing channel messages after filling in a form.
To do so, I created a slash-command that invoke a modal. Now I have a problem how to access this input data and use it to compose a message that…

me_wash
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Slack API - input box with type password to hide the information
Is there anyway to hide the text entered in input box field (similar to HTML password type)?

Shekhar Prasad Rajak
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