The Slack action for Ninja Forms will allow you to ping a Slack channel of your choice with a customizable message anytime a form is submitted.
Connecting Slack to Ninja Forms
Retrieve the Incoming Webhooks, Webhook URL
1. Navigate to api.slack.com and click on Your Apps located in the upper right menu.
2. Select the Create New App button, and choose From scratch.
3. Enter an App Name and Select a workspace to develop your app in, click Create App
4. Within the Building Apps for Slack menu click on the Incoming Webhooks and toggle the Activate Incoming Webhook switch.
5. Click, the Add New Webhook to Workspace and select the Slack channel you would like to post as an app, click Allow.
6. Copy the newly created Webhook URL to your clipboard.
Adding a Slack action
To add the action to any form, from the Emails & Actions tab click Add New Action and then the Slack action from inside the Actions Window that opens.
Configuring the Slack Action
1. Paste the copied Webhook URL into the Slack URL field.
2. Fill in the message field with form data by clicking on the merge-tag icon or adding your own content from scratch.
Now configure your action.
- Action Name: the name of the action as it will appear under your Emails & Actions tab in the form builder.
- Message: the message that will appear in Slack when the form is submitted. Merge tags can be used here to include information that’s been entered into any form field and more. Click the merge tag icon highlighted in red in the image below to see your options.
- Slack URL: the Webhook URL of your Slack workspace. See more on this and connect your form to Slack in the section below.
3. Publish and test your form.
If you set up the webhook correctly you will see a notification appear in the channel you selected with creating the app for your webhook.