DDL issues

You may find that some DDL operations (identified as 'lookup' in the input schema) may be missing parameters which affect their functionality.

For example:

They may not have any pagination parameters
They may miss filtering options for returned lists of data

A case in point is that the Slack send_message operation has a list_users_and_conversations_ddl to allow the user to select the channel they wish to send the message to.

However if you have more than 1000 channels (the max returned by the Slack API) then you will be unable to paginate with the DDL operation.

In this case, it is recommended that you make use of the Ops Explorer dev tool to find a non-DDL version of the operation.

In this case you can make use of the list_conversations operation, which accepts the limit and cursor pagination parameters:

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{
  "operation": "list_conversations",
  "authId": "af75fxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx8c494c5",
  "input": {
    "limit": 10,
    "cursor": "dGVhbTpDRTZEN0s2UTM="
  },
  "returnOutputSchema": false
}

After using this to allow a user to select the channel you can pass their choice as a direct input for channel in the send_message operation:

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{
  "operation": "send_message",
  "authId": "af75fxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx8c494c5",
  "input": {
    "channel": "{{channel}}",
    "text": "more please!",
    "as_user": true
  },
  "returnOutputSchema": false
}