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# Slack

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## Description

**What it does**: Sends automated updates or alerts to your team’s group chat.

**When to use it?**&#x20;

* **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              | <p>Options:<br>- Send Message</p>                                                       |
| Message             | <p>Input email message<br><br>Or refer to data input from before the node</p>           |
| 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**

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