Keepin' the Herd in Line - Integrating a Slack Workflow for Feed Order Reminders

Set up Slack workflows for automated reminders

• Go to Slack Automations
• Create a new Workflow using the Slack Workflow Builder

💡 Tip: Use your username as prefix for the Workflow name to make it unique 💡 Tip: Make the workflow name something meaningful

• Set Trigger. There are a lot of different options here, but we're going to do an event based workflow using a Webhook.
  • Trigger: Webhook
  • Copy the generated webhook URL
• Add the webhook URL to your Heroku Config Settings

heroku config:set SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL='your-Slack-Webhook-URL'

❗️Warning: Keep you webhook url secure.

• Add a Slack Message Step in the Workflow & select a channel/recipient
  • Message: "The herd's feed supply is running low. Cowpoke <your username> says it's time to order more feed.!"
  • Channnel #supply-orders
• Test the Workflow
  • Currently the app starts with a feed level of 40% and the notification is triggered when the feed level goes below 25%.
  • "Feed" the cattle twice to take the feed level down to 20% and check the supply-orders channel for the automated response.