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Connect to Slack

Let's configure the Slack connection properties to connect to Slack.

Before you begin

Before you get started, you'll need to get information from your Slack account.
Check out Prepare for authentication to learn more about the authentication prerequisites.

Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
This property is not supported by Data Ingestion and Replication and the Data Access Management services.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
Note: If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
You can specify a Secure Agent or Hosted Agent.
For more information about how to configure and use the runtime environments, see Runtime environments.
Base URL
The base URL to connect to the Slack APIs.
For example, https://slack.com/api/

Authentication types

You can configure bearer token and OAuth 2.0 authentication types to access Slack.
Select the required authentication method and then configure the authentication-specific parameters.