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:

It worked!

https://app.workato.com/recipes/1369225?st=425189

[jessica-lie]

[Dec 10, 2020] Bennett Goh (Product Manager at Workato) replied:

Hi Joe,

Just adding on to CJ's point, we also use Plotly for charts sometimes. Its a free API that allows you to customize even more (though you might need to do some transformations). Things like line charts are simple enough to do over there and you get back a simple PNG you can use in downstream actions.

[jessica-lie]

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

Hey pros,

I filed a support ticket to let Workato know the S3 links that host the chart are publicly accessible (and hosted indefinitely?). This could be a small concern if the chart has sensitive information. The team is on it. Look forward to their solution.