Enabling Slack integration in Jobs, FDR, and Validation

Job scheduler, FDR, and Validation result notifications can now be accessed from your Slack application.

We have a three-step process to be followed here as shown below:

1. Create a webhook URL for Slack integration.
2. Add the created webhook URL as a Slack instance from Third-party integration.
3. Use the created Slack instance in any scenario.

1. Create a webhook URL for Slack integration:

• Log in to your Slack application.
• Click the Channels dropdown list which displays two options namely Create and Manage.
• Hover on Create and click on Create channel option.

• A Create a channel pop-up window is displayed.
• Add the channel name and click on Next.

• Select Public – anyone in Getrightdata as an Example here.
• Click on Create.

• An Add people pop-up window is displayed.
• Click Skip for now as it is optional here.

• Click on the menu dropdown (here Getrightdata) list to view a set of options.
• Hover on Tools & Settings and click Customize workspace.

• A Customize Your Workspace session page is displayed.
• Click Home.

• Select and click Add Applications.

• Search and click Incoming Webhooks from the search text field.

• An Incoming Webhooks session page is displayed.
• Click Add to Slack.

• Select the Incoming Webhook as new_slack_webhook.

• Select Add Incoming Webhooks integration.

• This action creates the Webhook URL.

2. Add the created webhook URL as a Slack instance from Third-party integration:

• Click the ADMIN CONSOLE module.
• Hover and click on the System Preferences snippet option to open it.

• Click Third Party Integration to open it.

• By default, Jira option is selected.
• Select Slack.

• Click Add.

• An Add Slack Instance pop-up window is displayed.
• Add the Instance Name and URL and click Test Connection.

• A message Successfully Authenticated with Slack is displayed which indicates the slack integration is successful.
• Click Save.

• A toaster message Successfully created Slack board instance is displayed.
• The created new Slack instance is displayed in the below screenshot.

3. Use the created Slack instance in any scenario:

• Click the SCENARIO STUDIO module.
• Search for any scenario from the search text field.
• Select the scenario and click on Edit to open it in edit mode.

• From the Additional Options tab, drag and drop Slack widget onto the design canvas and double tap it to open.

• A Slack pop-up window is displayed.
• Add the Slack Channel and click Save to save the widget.

• Click on Execute Now icon.

• This action executes the scenario which displays a green tick mark as Slack widget status.

• Now, open your Slack application to view the recent Validation execution results as a notification.