# Slack
## Description
**What it does**: Sends automated updates or alerts to your team’s group chat.
**When to use it?**
* **Real-Time Alerts**: Send immediate notifications to a group chat when important events occur in your workflow (e.g., system alerts, sales notifications).
* **Community Updates**: Keep your community informed about news, updates, or workflow progress.
* **Daily/Weekly Summary Reports**: Automatically post summary reports of workflow activity to a dedicated Slack channel.
* **Task Assignment Notifications**: Notify team members when tasks are assigned to them via your workflow.
## Component settings
| Parameter Name | Description |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Credentials | You can specify to use your own API Key |
| Action |
Options: - Send Message
|
| Message |
Input email message
Or refer to data input from before the node
|
| Channel | Select channel want to send the message |
| Bot name | Input bot name |
| Bot icon (Optional) | Input bot icon |
| Unfurl links | If enabled, Slack will try to automatically expand a preview for links in messages sent |
## Example
**Input**
