Including variables in a Slack message using Airtable Script

I’d love to help with this but I’d need to set up a whole bunch of stuff in order to experiment and figure out how to do it; on the off chance you could invite me to a testing base with your script set up to point to a testing Slack channel, and also invite me to that testing Slack channel so I can see what gets fed through I’d be happy to try to see what I could figure out

Best of luck!

Welcome to the community, ​@fileycatrescue!

Slack’s text formatting guide is located here.

I’m not a JavaScript expert so I can’t help you there, but if you’d like to easily accomplish this without writing any code at all, you can do this for free with Make’s Slack integrations and Make’s Airtable integrations.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.

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You can reference the Name and Address values in your Slack message by storing them in variables when retrieving the record data from Airtable. Then, use string interpolation or template literals (if using JavaScript) to insert them into the message.

For example, in JavaScript:

javascript

const name = record.get("Name"); const address = record.get("Address"); const message = `New record added:\n*Name:* ${name}\n*Address:* ${address}`;

Ensure your script correctly fetches the data before constructing the message