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- Valid Slack app
- Valid Client ID
- Valid Client secret
- User Scopes needed
- Redirect/Callback URLs. See Configuring Redirect URLs for your app for details.While creating the Slack app, ensure that you have configured the redirect/callback URLs properly in OAuth & Permissions under your app's Features section from the left navigation.
Scroll down to the Redirect URLs section and enter at least two redirect URLs in the format — <https://<SnapLogic_POD_Name>/api/1/rest/admin/oauth2callback/slack>.
Limitations
For ease and convenience of working with Slack users and teams, do not use this account type to create a Bot Token Account.
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To create your Slack Generic OAuth2 account in SnapLogic, you must create an application as per the application provider's instructions in Start building Slack apps to generate and supply Client ID, Client secret, OAuth2 endpoint, and OAuth2 token in the settings below and click Authorize. SnapLogic sends your account details to the OAuth2 endpoint specified and populates the Access token, Refresh token, and Access token expiration fields based on the details received from the endpoint.
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Label | String | Required. Enter a unique label for the account. | N/A | Slack_OAuth2_UserToken | |||||
Client ID | String | Required. Enter the client ID associated with your Slack application. You can create the client ID as advised by your application provider. | N/A | 1394786838725.1307264331815 | |||||
Client secret | String | Enter the client secret associated with your account. You can create the client secret as advised by your application provider. | N/A | bec1f9242f9nsh67f2276b9ws4cadd14 | |||||
Access token | String | Auto-generated after authorization. The access token associated with the Slack application is used to make API requests on behalf of the user associated with the client ID. | N/A | N/A | |||||
Refresh token | String | Auto-generated after authorization. The refresh token retrieval for the application is specified when setting up the account for the endpoint. There, the OAuth2 flow is executed and the resulting refresh token is stored in this field. If the refresh token is stored, then the access token is refreshed automatically before it expires. | N/A | N/A | |||||
Access token expiration | Integer | Auto-generated after authorization. The access token expiration value in Epoch time. | N/A | N/A | |||||
Header authenticated | Check box | Enable this if endpoint uses bearer header authentication. | Not selected | Selected | |||||
OAuth2 Endpoint | String | Required. Enter the OAuth2 endpoint authorization URL to authorize the application. | https://slack.com/oauth/ v2/authorize | https://slack.com/oauth/ v2/authorize | |||||
OAuth2 Token | String | Required. Enter the Token endpoint to get the access token. | https://slack.com/api/ oauth.v2.access | https://slack.com/api/ oauth.v2.access | |||||
Token endpoint config | Use this field set to configure token endpoint parameters as necessary for the account. This field set comprises the following fields:
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Token endpoint parameter | String | Provide the name for the token endpoint parameter. | N/A | user_scope | |||||
Token endpoint parameter value | String | Provide the value for the parameter. | N/A | users:read | |||||
Auth endpoint config | Use this field set to assign scopes for the OAuth2 Authentication endpoint for the user account. We recommend that you define at least one scope entry in this field set. This field set comprises the following fields:
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Authentication parameter | String | Provide the name for an authentication parameter. | N/A | user_scope scope | |||||
Authentication parameter value | String | Provide the value for the parameter, typically at least one User scope. See the Scope and Permissions article in Slack API documentation for the complete list. | N/A | files:write | |||||
Auto-refresh token | Check box | Do not select this check box as Slack (bot/user) tokens do not expire, and hence, need not be refreshed.
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Authorize | Button | Click this button to acquire the required permissions for this account from the Slack app, when creating an account. For existing accounts, you can click this button to re-acquire the permissions (Access token, Refresh token and Access token expiration) to ensure that the account works as expected. This action does not require or result in any changes to the Access Token that is already generated. | N/A | N/A |
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Error | Reason | Resolution |
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Authentication failed. | You have entered an incorrect Client ID or Client secret. | Verify whether you have supplied the correct and valid Client ID and Client secret for the account and assigned the required access privileges to the application. |
Error in Authorization: Something went wrong when authorizing this app. Invalid client_id parameter | You have entered an incorrect Client ID. | Verify the Client ID entered for the account and try authorizing the app again. |
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