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I have a slack application that responds with formatted data in mrkdwn but it would be nice to have the information presented in table form like so
Am trying to implement this but cant quite find how to format this message. The only close solution i have is taking a screen grab of the table and sending it instead but that affects the applications response time. Any help would be appreciated thanks
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The official answer is that Slack messages do not support tables. They suggest to generate a table and post it as an image. They also said that they will add it to their backlog.
To do so, open Slack's preferences menu by clicking the menu at the top-left corner of the Slack window and selecting “Preferences.” Click “Advanced” in the left pane and enable “Format messages with markup” under Input Options. The change will take effect immediately.
When you're writing a message in Slack, press the Aa button to reveal a formatting panel in both Slack's desktop and mobile apps. Highlight any text you've written then click options like bold, italics, strikethrough or code format to give messages the right emphasis or to make key excerpts stand out.
Slack is a popular team messaging and collaboration application that supports a subset of the Markdown syntax. Different parts of the interface provide different levels of Markdown support.
Slack has no built-in support to render tables in messages. Draw table with chars in the message using a monospace font ( Example) Draw table with chars and upload as plain text snippet with files.upload
Slack does not support rendering of tables so this markup will not work. You can use fields, which will be rendered as 2 columns on most devices. See fields in layout blocks. attach the image to your message. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
In order to send a chart or graph to your Slack channel, you must first render it as an image. In this tutorial we’ll use the free and open-source QuickChart API to generate chart images. To send these charts to Slack, you must: This tutorial is written assuming you are using Javascript, but the approach is general enough to work for any language.
Formatting helps add detail and clarity to your messages in Slack. You can use the formatting toolbar in the message field, or use markup and surround text with special characters. Select the text formatting icon or highlight the text you'd like to format to choose an option.
Slack has no built-in support to render tables in messages.
Your workaround options are:
Draw table with chars in the message using a monospace font (Example)
Draw table with chars and upload as plain text snippet with files.upload
Render table as image and attach to a message or upload as image
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