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Add Reaction

Adds an emoji reaction to a message in Slack. Useful when using the blockActionInteraction event.

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Params

keyrequired
string

A unique string. Please see the Keys and Resumability doc for more info.

optionsrequired
object
namerequired
string

The name of the emoji to add as a reaction (without colons). (Check out this emoji cheatsheet to see what’s available.)

timestamprequired
string

The timestamp of the message to add the reaction to. E.g. 1631234567.123456.

channelName
string

The name of the channel, can optionally include the #. E.g. #team. Alternatively you can use the channelId param.

channelId
string

The slack ID of the channel, e.g. C04GWUTDC4W. Can be used instead of channelName. Use channelId if the slack channel name could change.

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Response

okDefault: "true"
boolean

Always true; non-ok responses will halt the workflow run and throw an error.

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Example Workflows

import { Trigger } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";
import * as slack from "@trigger.dev/slack";

new Trigger({
  id: "slack-block-interaction",
  name: "Slack Block Interaction",
  on: slack.events.blockActionInteraction({
    blockId: "issue.action.block",
    actionId: ["status-blocked", "status-help", "rating"],
  }),
  run: async (event, ctx) => {
    return slack.addReaction("Adding a funny reaction to the message", {
      name: "laughing",
      timestamp: event.message.ts,
      channelId: event.channel.id,
    });
  },
}).listen();