Please develop a native Airtable bot for Slack. My team would kill to be able to address Airtable via @airtable and /airtable!
There are many use cases, I have no doubt. And thus, bots may need to be configured per channel. But presentation of Airtable views/UIs within Slack, would be MAJOR. Our specific needs include:
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The ability to request an in-line Airtable form (iframe), complete with database-driven drop-downs.
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The ability to search a given base/view/field for a text string, returning the full record.
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Ability to request state-change reports for a given period, eliminating the need for Airtable’s currently rather shotgun/spammy use of a single channel (nearly always muted).
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Scheduled updates per channel/view. Just like Google Calendar can update our team of the week’s events at a given time, we’d like Airtable to update us of the records in a given view on a specific schedule. The presentation UI for such status reports would need development; I picture a “big card” or user-defined layout block.
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Native notification of form-receipt. Right now we can ingest the form-received emails, and can build workflows via Zapier, but native bot functionality would be better.
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Slack notification of credits, feature updates, nearing plan threshold, broken integrations, etc. Basically, anything that Airtable emails us now, should be optionally slacked/DM’d instead.
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I could go on… VERY interested in the rest of yall’s thoughts; please chime in below!
