Dev tools · September 28, 2017
Dialogs by Slack
Build interactive forms in Slack that do all sorts of things
Dialogs by Slack launched on September 28, 2017 with 396 votes, #31 of 3,073 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
Dialogs by Slack is a tool that enables users to build interactive forms directly within Slack. It allows teams to file tickets, assign tasks, collect feedback, track attendance, and perform various other functions without leaving the messaging platform. The tool is designed for productivity and task management, making it useful for software engineering teams and anyone needing to streamline workflows within Slack.
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From the sources
Now you can build interactive forms in Slack that do all sorts of things. File a ticket, add assignees, gather feedback, take attendance, and much more.
Dialogs are designed to help you gather multi-part input from end-users in a structured way; think, for example, of a helpdesk ticket that contains a freeform description of an issue, but also requires some category labels for triage. They're best used for quick, contextual work: brief tasks that get some benefit from being completed in the context of a channel or conversation. Users trigger your app's dialogs by clicking on buttons , selecting from menus , or invoking slash commands . Dialogs contain a variety of guided input types. Dialogs appear as a modal window inside Slack. Within that modal, you can add one or many input fields in the form of single line text inputs, text areas, and…from docs.slack.dev
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