Slack Reminder Bot

[Roshan]

Hello,

I am trying to create a simple automation on Slack. Essentially:
- If a person is tagged and doesn't respond within 1h, I want to send a link to that original message (where the person is tagged) as a DM to the tagged person.
- At EOD, send a DM summary of all tagged posts that are yet to have a response

When I connect a trigger, I noticed that it's across fixed channels - this is okay, though I prefer it for all channels.
- the challenge I am facing is that on a message where users are tagged in a post, the user IDs are used and not names (eg. <uxxxxxxxxxx>) but on the action, I can only pick users by name and not by their id.
- next challenge is, how do I get Pabbly to keep track of all posts and corresponding links with user tags; then watch for responses to that post (thread) and then DM the link to users.

Appreciate any help!

 

[ArshilAhmad]

Hi @Roshan,

Hello,

I am trying to create a simple automation on Slack. Essentially:
- If a person is tagged and doesn't respond within 1h, I want to send a link to that original message (where the person is tagged) as a DM to the tagged person.
- At EOD, send a DM summary of all tagged posts that are yet to have a response

When I connect a trigger, I noticed that it's across fixed channels - this is okay, though I prefer it for all channels.
- the challenge I am facing is that on a message where users are tagged in a post, the user IDs are used and not names (eg. <uxxxxxxxxxx>) but on the action, I can only pick users by name and not by their id.

You can try using 'Get User by ID' action event.

- next challenge is, how do I get Pabbly to keep track of all posts and corresponding links with user tags; then watch for responses to that post (thread) and then DM the link to users.

I'm afraid this use case is not possible, as there is no endpoint that can check the reply to a post after 1 hour.