📢 Introducing Actionable Messages: Seamlessly Interact with Airtable Data in Slack! 🚀

[Chris_Ferrer]

Hi Airtable Community! I’m Chris, a Product Manager here at Airtable. We're thrilled to announce Actionable Messages! 🎉 Actionable Messages lets you take act on Airtable data from Slack. No more switching between apps, just seamless updates.

What are Actionable Messages? Never miss a beat—you and your team receive gentle nudges for tasks that need their attention, and can take immediate action in Slack: make updates, approve assets, triage bugs, and more.

How to Get Started? It's easy! Builders can add the Slack Actionable Messages Automation to your existing or new workflows. Select a trigger, set up the Slack message, and watch the updates flow in. It's as simple as that!

Some Example Use Cases:
✅Approvals:

• Approve PTO requests instantly
• Review creative assets effortlessly

🧐 Intake and Triage:

• Categorize IT tickets quickly
• Acknowledge escalations with a click

⚡️ Updates:

• Remind someone to close open tickets

Please share your feedback and questions here!

[ScottWorld]

Unfortunately, Airtable doesn’t yet offer that functionality, but you may want to email support@airtable.com to request that feature. 

In the meantime, I would recommend using Make’s Slack automations to do a variation on that.

You can create actionable URL links in Slack using Make’s custom webhooks, and then you can post a message to the channel after the action was taken.

I give a demonstration on how to do this (in the context of email) on this Airtable podcast episode, but you can easily modify my demonstration to work with Slack.

You’ll also need to know how to instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable, which I explain at this link.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld