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Reputation: 163

Slack slash command not visible in the channel

I am developing a Slack bot using Bolt API in Node.js. The problem I am facing is when I send a slash command, the bot receives and responds to the command successfully but the command is not visible in the channel.

I read the following article https://api.slack.com/interactivity/slash-commands#responding_response_url where it states that I need to add {"response_type": "in_channel"}

slack.js

const { App, LogLevel } = require("@slack/bolt");
app.command("/ask", async ({ command, ack, say, respond }) => {

    console.log("command ", command)
    console.log("ack ", ack)

    await ack();
    await say(`Hi <@${command.user_name}>`)

    
})

(async () => {
    const port = 8000
    await app.start(port);
    console.log(`⚡️ Slack Bolt app is running on port ${port}!`);
   })()

I am new to slack API, and I am not able to understand how should I manipulate the request in order to see the commands in the channel as well

Any advice or help is appreciated!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1650

Answers (2)

cciollaro
cciollaro

Reputation: 374

Try adding it to your ack({"response_type": "in_channel"}), that's what worked for me.

Upvotes: 3

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 257

You can use the respond command in order to send a message that is visible within the channel:

await respond({"response_type": "in_channel", "text": "hello!"});

There's an example of this within the Bolt for JavaScript docs here: https://slack.dev/bolt-js/concepts#action-respond

Upvotes: 0

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