Output table in slack slash command

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prashantitis picture prashantitis · Sep 20, 2016 · Viewed 7k times · Source

I want slash command to output data in a table format? I know that I will have to setup a custom integration for this. I did that using GET Method. enter image description here

I can setup my own web service on EC2 machine, but how should I make sure that data comes in table format.

May be something like thisenter image description here My problem is how should I make available data present in tabular format?

Answer

Taylor Singletary picture Taylor Singletary · Sep 20, 2016

It's unfortunately not possible to format Slack messages as a table in this way. You would need to resort to generating an image and referencing it in a message attachment. There is limited support for displaying simple fields and labels, but may not quite meet your needs.

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