Test Bot Example

test-bot.js

const { SlackDialog } = require("botbuilder-adapter-slack");

const SLASH_COMMANDS = {
  TEST: "/test",
};

module.exports = function (controller) {
  /**
   * controller.on(slash_command) is Slack's way of listening for any specific
   * slash command events a user emits.
   **/
  controller.on("slash_command", async (bot, message) => {
    if (message.command === SLASH_COMMANDS.TEST) {
      /**
       * If the event emited was /test, than are bot is going to open up
       * a dialog box to collect input from the user.
       *
       * SlackDialog expects a name for the form ("Test"), a callback id ("test-form"),
       * and the type of dialog it is ("Submit").
       *
       * After you set the name, callback, and form type, you can then pass in
       * an array of fields. You can read more about the
       * various fields you can use here https://api.slack.com/dialogs#text_elements
       */

      await bot.replyWithDialog(
        message,
        new SlackDialog("Test", "test-form", "Submit", [
          {
            label: "What is your name?", // the question the user will see
            name: "name", // the value you can reference on form submission
            type: "text", // the type of input
          },
        ])
          .notifyOnCancel(true)
          .asObject()
      );
    }
  });

  /**
   * Similar to on slash_command, our bot will also listen for form submissions
   * via the dialog_submission event.
   *
   * In the callback, you'll get a bot and message object.
   *
   * The bot is the worker here in this case to be able to post messages in Slack, and the message
   * object will contain the form responses.
   */
  controller.on("dialog_submission", async (bot, message) => {
    if (message.callback_id === "test-form") {
      /**
       * If the form submitted was infact our test-form, then the bot will post
       * a formatted message to the #slack-bot-test channel using the name value from our
       * dialoge response
       */

      await bot.say({
        channel: "#slack-bot-test", // make sure you've created this channel and have added your bot.
        blocks: [
          {
            type: "header",
            text: {
              type: "plain_text",
              text: "Bot Submission!",
            },
          },
          {
            type: "context",
            elements: [
              {
                type: "plain_text",
                text: "Please find submission responses below",
              },
            ],
          },

          {
            type: "section",
            text: {
              type: "mrkdwn",
              text: `User who sumbitted: ${message.name}`,
            },
          },
        ],
      });
    }
  });
};