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Post a Message and Update It Later

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Recipe · 2 steps

Post a Message and Update It Later

with Slack

Post an initial message and then update it in place.

  1. Post the initial status message and capture its channel and timestamp.
  2. Update the same message in place with the revised text.
What you'll need to have ready
  • channel: The channel ID to post and then update the message in.
  • initialText: The initial status message text.
  • updatedText: The revised text to replace the initial message with.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow slack:post-update-message, 2 operations: postChatPostmessage → postChatUpdate. Specs on APIs.io.