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Send Message To User

The Send Message To User step is used to send a message to the user. Prerequisite User must have the following permissions:

Tokens and Permissions

Token TypePermissions
Bot tokens

chat: write

channels: write

groups: read

im:read

mpim:read

users:read.email

User tokens

chat: write

chat:write: user

chat:write: bot

channels:read

groups:read

im:read

mpim:read

users:read.email

Reference API documentation: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage

Configurations

No.Field NameDescription
1Step NameName of the step. This name has to be unique in a single workflow.
2Bot/User Access TokenSpecify the generated Bot or User Access Token. The data type is Secure String. This is a mandatory field.
3Test ConnectionVerifies whether the connection is established or not.
No.Field NameDescription
1User Email IDSpecify the user email ID to which you want to send the message. The data type is String. This field is mandatory.
2GetClick Get, if a connection is successfully established, it populates a list of users.
3MessageSpecify the message you want to send to the user. The data type is String. This field is mandatory.
4API Request DelayProvide an appropriate delay according to the rate limit of your Slack API.

Output tab:

No.Field NameDescription
1Message IDOutput field to hold the result of the successful plugin execution. The default label value for this field is “MessageID”.