Overview

The Search activity uses the Slack search.all API to find the messages and files that match your search parameters (Query). The search parameters follow the same modifiers that you use when searching in the Slack application (e.g., "in:#channel-name, in:@user.name, keyword"). For more information, see Search in Slack in the Slack help documentation.

After performing the search, the activity returns the matching Message objects (FirstMessage and Messages) and SlackFile (FirstFile and Files) objects that you can use as input variables in subsequent activities (e.g., Download File).

How it Works

The following steps and message sequence diagram is an example of how the activity works from design time (i.e., the activity dependencies and input/output properties) to run time.

Complete the Setup steps.
Add the Slack Scope activity to your project.
Add the Search activity inside the Slack Scope activity.
Enter values for the Input properties.
Create and enter the following variables for your Output properties.
- SlackFile and SlackFile[]
- Message and Message[]
Run the activity.
- Your input property values are sent to the search.all API.
- The API returns the SlackFile, SlackFile[], Message, and Message[] values to your output property variables.

Properties

The values for the following properties are specified when adding this activity to your project in UiPath Studio.

Common

DisplayName

The display name of the activity.

Attributes	Details
Type	`String`
Required	Yes
Default value	Search
Allowed values	Enter a `String` or `String` variable.
Notes	N/A

Input

Query

Your search parameters (e.g., channel, user, keywords).

Attributes	Details
Type	`String`
Required	Yes
Default value	Empty
Allowed values	Enter a `String` or `String` variable.
Notes	Enter your query using the same search modifiers that you use in the Slack application (e.g., "in:#slack_quickstart New hires" would search for "New hires" (in messages and files) in the slack-quickstart channel). For more information, see Search in Slack in the Slack help documentation.

Misc

Private

If selected, the values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level.

Attributes	Details
Type	Checkbox
Required	No
Default value	Not Selected
Allowed values	Selected or Not Selected
Notes	N/A

Options

MaxResults

The maximum number of results that you want to be returned in the Message and SlackFile arrays.

Attributes	Details
Type	`Int32`
Required	No
Default value	20 (not displayed)
Allowed values	Enter a `Int32` or `Int32` variable.
Notes	N/A

SortBy

Specifies how you want the results sorted when they're returned.

Attributes	Details
Type	`Int32`
Required	N/A (default selection)
Default value	Relevance
Allowed values	Select from three options: Relevance Newest Oldest
Notes	The three options are sorted accordingly: Relevance - The messages and files that contain content that most matche your query. Newest - The most recent messages and files that contain content matching your query. Oldest - The oldest messages and files that contain content matching your query.

Output

Files

The files that contain content matching your Query value.

Attributes	Details
Type	`File[]` UiPath.Slack.Models.SlackFile
Required	No (recommended if you plan to use the output data in subsequent activities)
Default value	Empty
Allowed values	Enter a `File[]` variable.
Notes	If no files are found, an empty array is returned. If you plan to use the For Each activity to process the array output, select _UiPath.Slack.Models.SlackFile as the TypeArgument (see example image below).

FirstFile

The first file found (according to your SortBy value) that contains content matching your Query value.

Attributes	Details
Type	`File` UiPath.Slack.Models.SlackFile
Required	No (recommended if you plan to use the output data in subsequent activities)
Default value	Empty
Allowed values	Enter a `File` variable.
Notes	If no file is found, a null value is returned.

FirstMessage

The first message found (according to your SortBy value) that contains content matching your Query value.

Attributes	Details
Type	`Message` UiPath.Slack.Models.Message
Required	No (recommended if you plan to use the output data in subsequent activities)
Default value	Empty
Allowed values	Enter a `Message` variable.
Notes	If no message is found, a null value is returned. The `Message` object contains file information as well. You can download files using the `Message` object by getting its `File` property (e.g. item.File)

Messages

The messages that contain content matching your Query value.

Attributes	Details
Type	`Message[]` UiPath.Slack.Models.Message
Required	No (recommended if you plan to use the output data in subsequent activities)
Default value	Empty
Allowed values	Enter a `Message[]` variable.
Notes	If no messages are found, an empty array is returned. The `Message` object contains file information as well. You can download files using the `Message` object by getting its `File` property (e.g. item.File(0)) If you plan to use the For Each activity to process the array output, select UiPath.Slack.Models.Message as the TypeArgument (see example image below).

Example

The following image shows an example of the activity dependency relationship and input/output property values.

For step-by-step instructions and examples, see the Quickstart guides.

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