Sending Graphs & Tables to Slack

[jessica-lie]

[Dec 9, 2020] Joe Blanchett (Product Manager, Finance Systems at Seat Geek) posted:

Hello Automation Pros,

Has anyone found a way to deliver aesthetically pleasing graphs or charts via Slack? We have a few use cases for this, but most of all I’d like to deliver a table or bar graph of outbound payments on a periodic basis.

[jessica-lie]

[Dec 10, 2020] Gordon Hu from WeGalvanize replied:

Hi Joe,

Are these tables/charts in the form of a “file”? If so, there is a custom connector to send a file to someone /channel via slack.

[jessica-lie]

[Dec 10, 2020] Chi Jie Wee (CSM at Workato) replied:

Hi Joe,

Workato has a charts connector to generate a bar/pie chart. It's fairly basic so I'm not sure if it meets the "aesthetics" requirement.

This connector returns a chart URL, which unfurls into an image when posted in Slack.

The other option would be using tools like Tableau to generate the dashboard images, then using Workato to download these images using their API, and uploading the image as a file in Slack.

[jessica-lie]

[Dec 10, 2020] Joe Blanchett (Product Manager, Finance Systems at Seat Geek) replied:

Thanks CJ! I didn't know bar charts were available. I'll give that a try.

[jessica-lie]

[Dec 10, 2020] Gordon Hu from WeGalvanize replied:

Hmn…learned another new thing today 😊 Thank you Chi!

I think we need an automation to auto recommend steps.

• Input: a brief description of business request
• Output: automated workato sample recipes for you to customize