Slack to Gsheets - user email not ID

[olimckenna]

Hello, I am considering creating a Slack to Gsheets connection. I looked at your video and it is exactly what I want:

Just one question, is it possible to add custom fields to populate other columns in the Gsheet? E.g. column "city" and I want to capture not only the message on Slack, but also a specific city about which the message is about. To achieve this I guess there should be a field that would send the data to my specific column

 

[Himesh]

In slack you don't have fields. One thing you can try is from message body you can extract the city via text parser(Use Extract pattern as an action).
E.g. This is the message coming in from Slack

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City-Ahmedabad

Why do we use it?​

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So in this example you can we have passed City-Ahmedabad, that is format you always need to fllow. City-CITY_NAME_HERE

Then use Text Formatter - Extract Pattern action

 

[olimckenna]

Interesting solution, thanks!