date type

This reference documents the Slack types at the platform level. Their availability and structure may differ in each SDK

Type: slack#/types/date

Property	Type	Description
`default`	The type that is being described.	An optional parameter default value.
`description`	string	An optional parameter description.
`examples`	An array of the type being described.	An optional list of examples.
`hint`	string	An optional parameter hint.
`title`	string	An optional parameter title.
`type`	string	String that defines the parameter type.
`choices`	EnumChoice[]	Defines labels that correspond to the `enum` values. See below.

The `choices` property

The choices property is an array of EnumChoice objects. Here is a closer look at the properties of the EnumChoice object:

Property	Type	Description
`default`	The type that is being described. For example, the default for a `boolean` would be `true` or `false`.	An optional parameter default value.
`description`	string	An optional parameter description.
`examples`	An array of the type being described.	An optional list of examples.
`hint`	string	An optional parameter hint.
`title`	string	An optional parameter title.
`type`	string	String that defines the parameter type.
`value`	The type that the `EnumChoice` object corresponds to; in the example below, it is `string`	The value of the corresponding choice, which must map to the values present in the sibling `enum` property.
`title`	string	The label to display for this `EnumChoice`.
`description`	string	An optional description for this `EnumChoice`.

A choices example using the string Slack type,

In the following example for the string Slack type, defining the choices property allows us to have the label on the input form be capitalized, but the data we're going to save be lowercase.

import { DefineWorkflow, Schema } from "deno-slack-sdk/mod.ts";

// ...

const inputForm = LogFruitWorkflow.addStep(
  Schema.slack.functions.OpenForm,
  {
    title: "Tell us your favorite fruit",
    interactivity: LogFruitWorkflow.inputs.interactivity,
    submit_label: "Submit",
    fields: {
      elements: [{
          name: "Fruit",
          title: "The three best fruits",
          type: Schema.types.string,
          enum: ['mango', 'strawberry', 'plum'],
          choices: [
            {value: 'mango', title: 'Mango!', description: 'Wonderfully tropical'},
            {value: 'strawberry', title: 'Strawberry!', description: 'Absolutely fantastic'},
            {value: 'plum', title: 'Plum!', description: 'Tart, just the way I like em'},
          ]
      }]
      required: ["Fruit"],
    },
  },
);

// ...

Declare a date type:

JSON manifest
Deno Slack SDK

// ...
"fields": {
  "elements": [
    {
      "date_posted": {
      "type": "slack#/types/date"
      }
    }
  ]
}
// ...

// ...
fields: {
  elements: [
    {
      name: "date",
      title: "Date Posted",
      type: Schema.slack.types.date,
    },
  ],
},
// ...

Date example

In this example workflow, a form requires a date as input, which is printed along with the message after the form is submitted.

import { DefineWorkflow, Schema } from "deno-slack-sdk/mod.ts";

const TestReverseWorkflow = DefineWorkflow({
  callback_id: "test_reverse",
  title: "Test reverse",
  input_parameters: {
    properties: {
      channel: { type: Schema.slack.types.channel_id },
      interactivity: { type: Schema.slack.types.interactivity },
    },
    required: ["interactivity"],
  },
});

const formData = TestReverseWorkflow.addStep(Schema.slack.functions.OpenForm, {
  title: "Reverse string form",
  submit_label: "Submit form",
  description: "Submit a string to reverse",
  interactivity: TestReverseWorkflow.inputs.interactivity,
  fields: {
    required: ["channel", "stringInput", "date"],
    elements: [
      {
        name: "stringInput",
        title: "String input",
        type: Schema.types.string,
      },
      {
        name: "date",
        title: "Date Posted",
        type: Schema.slack.types.date,
      },
      {
        name: "channel",
        title: "Post in",
        type: Schema.slack.types.channel_id,
        default: TestReverseWorkflow.inputs.channel,
      },
    ],
  },
});

import { ReverseFunction } from "../functions/reverse.ts";
const reverseStep = TestReverseWorkflow.addStep(ReverseFunction, {
  input: formData.outputs.fields.stringInput,
});

// Add the date parameter as a step in your workflow. The message and date will be printed side by side.
TestReverseWorkflow.addStep(Schema.slack.functions.SendMessage, {
  channel_id: formData.outputs.fields.channel,
  message: reverseStep.outputs.reverseString + " " +
    formData.outputs.fields.date,
});

The choices property​

The `choices` property