# Connecting Amazon Q Business to Slack using APIs You use the [CreateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_CreateDataSource.html) action to connect a data source to your Amazon Q application. You can also use the [UpdateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_UpdateDataSource.html) action to modify an existing data source configuration. Then, you use the `configuration` parameter to provide a JSON blob that conforms the AWS-defined JSON schema. For an example of the API request, see [CreateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_CreateDataSource.html) and [UpdateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_UpdateDataSource.html) in the Amazon Q API Reference. **Topics** + [Slack configuration properties](#slack-configuration-keys) + [Slack JSON schema](#slack-json) + [Slack JSON schema example](#s3-api-json-example) ## Slack configuration properties The following provides information about important configuration properties required in the schema. | Configuration | Description | Type | Required | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `connectionConfiguration` | Configuration information for the endpoint for the data source. | `object` This property has the following sub-property: `repositoryEndpointMetadata`. | Yes | | `repositoryEndpointMetadata` | The endpoint information for the data source. | `object` This property has the following sub-property: `teamId`. | Yes | | `teamId` | The Slack team ID you copied from your Slack main page URL. | `string` | Yes | | `repositoryConfigurations` | Configuration information for the content of the data source. For example, configuring specific types of content and field mappings. | `object` This property has the following sub-property: `All`. | No | | `All` | A list of objects that map the attributes or field names of your Slack pages and assets to Amazon Q index field names. | `object` This property has the following sub-properties: `indexFieldName`, `indexFieldType`, `dataSourceFieldName`, and `dateFieldFormat`. | Yes | | `indexFieldName` | The field name of your Slack pages and assets. | `string` | Yes | | `indexFieldType` | The field type of your Slack pages and assets. | `string` The allowed values are `STRING`, `STRING_LIST`, and `DATE`. | Yes | | `dataSourceFieldName` | The data source field name of your Slack pages and assets. | `string` | Yes | | `dateFieldFormat` | The date format of your Slack pages and assets. | `string` Specify the date format in the form `yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'` | No | | `additionalProperties` | Additional configuration options for your content in your data source. | `object` This property has the following sub-properties. [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/slack-api.html) | Yes | | `isCrawlAcl` | Specify true to crawl access control information from documents. Amazon Q Business crawls ACL information by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents your end users have access to. See [Authorization](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-authorization) for more details. | `boolean` | No | | `maxFileSizeInMegaBytes` | Specify the maximum single file size limit in MBs that Amazon Q will crawl. Amazon Q will crawl only the files within the size limit you define. The default file size is 50MB. The maximum file size should be greater than 0MB and less than or equal to 50MB. | `string` | No | | `fieldForUserId` | Specify field to use for UserId for ACL crawling. | `string` | No | | `inclusionPatterns` | A list of regular expression patterns to include specific content in your Slack data source. Content that matches the patterns are included in the index. Content that doesn't match the patterns are excluded from the index. If any content matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the content isn't included in the index. | `array` | No | | `exclusionPatterns` | A list of regular expression patterns to exclude specific content in your Slack data source. Content that matches the patterns are excluded from the index. Content that doesn't match the patterns are included in the index. If any content matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the content isn't included in the index. | `array` | No | | `crawlBotMessages` | `true` to crawl Slack bot messages. | `boolean` | No | | `excludeArchived` | `true` to exclude archived messages from crawl. | `boolean` | No | | `conversationType` | The type of conversation that you want to index. | `string` Valid values are `PUBLIC_CHANNEL`, `PRIVATE_CHANNEL`, `GROUP_MESSAGE`, and `DIRECT_MESSAGE`. | No | | `channelFilter` | The type of channel that you want to index whether private\$1channel or public\$1channel. | `object` This property has the following sub-properties: `private_channel` and `public_channel`. | No | | `private_channel` | The IDs of the private channel that you want to index. | `array` | No | | `public_channel` | The IDs of public channel that you want to index. | `array` | No | | `channelIdFilter` | You can choose to crawl specific channels vy channel ID using the channelIdFilter. | `array` | No | | `sinceDate` | You can choose to configure a sinceDate parameter so that the Slack connector crawls content based on a specific sinceDate. | `string` Specify the date in the form `^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}Z$` or as an empty string. | No | | `lookBack` | You can choose to configure a lookBack parameter so that the Slack connector crawls lookBack content. | `string` Specify the value in the form `^[0-9]*$`. | No | | `syncMode` | Specify whether Amazon Q should update your index by syncing all documents or only new, modified, and deleted documents. | `string` You can choose between the following options: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/slack-api.html) | Yes | | `type` | The type of data source. Specify SLACK as your data source type. | `string` | Yes | | `enableIdentityCrawler` | Specify true to use the Amazon Q identity crawler to sync identity/principal information on users and groups with access to specific documents. Amazon Q Business crawls identity information from your data source by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents end users have access to. For more information, see [Identity crawler](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-identity-crawler). | `boolean` | Yes | | `secretArn` | The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an AWS Secrets Manager secret that contains the key-value pairs required to connect to your Slack. | `string` The secret must contain a JSON structure with the following keys: 
{
    "slackToken": "token"
}
| Yes | | `version` | The version of this template that's currently supported. | `string` | No | ## Slack JSON schema The following is the Slack JSON schema: ``` { "type": "object", "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "pattern": "SLACK" }, "syncMode": { "type": "string", "enum": ["FORCED_FULL_CRAWL", "FULL_CRAWL", "CHANGE_LOG"] }, "secretArn": { "type": "string" }, "enableIdentityCrawler": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "connectionConfiguration": { "type": "object", "properties": { "repositoryEndpointMetadata": { "type": "object", "properties": { "teamId": { "type": "string" } }, "required": ["teamId"] } } }, "repositoryConfigurations": { "type": "object", "properties": { "All": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": ["STRING", "STRING_LIST", "DATE", "LONG"] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": ["fieldMappings"] } }, "required": [] }, "additionalProperties": { "type": "object", "properties": { "isCrawlAcl": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": { "type": "string" }, "fieldForUserId": { "type": "string" }, "exclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "inclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "crawlBotMessages": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "excludeArchived": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ] }, "conversationType": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "PUBLIC_CHANNEL", "PRIVATE_CHANNEL", "GROUP_MESSAGE", "DIRECT_MESSAGE" ] } }, "channelFilter": { "type": "object", "properties": { "private_channel": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "public_channel": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } } } }, "channelIdFilter": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "sinceDate": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}Z$" }, { "type": "string", "pattern": "" } ] }, "lookBack": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9]*$" }, "enableDeletionProtection": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "string", "enum": ["true", "false"] } ], "default": false }, "deletionProtectionThreshold": { "type": "string", "default": "15" } }, "required": [] }, "version": { "type": "string", "anyOf": [ { "pattern": "1.0.0" } ] }, "required": [ "type", "secretArn", "syncMode", "enableIdentityCrawler", "connectionConfiguration", "repositoryConfigurations", "additionalProperties" ] } } ``` ## Slack JSON schema example The following is the Slack JSON schema example: ``` { "type": "SLACK", "syncMode": "FULL_CRAWL", "secretArn": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:my-slack-secret", "enableIdentityCrawler": "true", "connectionConfiguration": { "repositoryEndpointMetadata": { "teamId": "T12345678" } }, "repositoryConfigurations": { "All": { "fieldMappings": [ { "indexFieldName": "message_id", "indexFieldType": "STRING", "dataSourceFieldName": "id", "dateFieldFormat": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } ] } }, "additionalProperties": { "isCrawlAcl": "true", "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": "50", "fieldForUserId": "user_id", "exclusionPatterns": ["*.tmp"], "inclusionPatterns": ["*"], "crawlBotMessages": "false", "excludeArchived": "true", "conversationType": ["PUBLIC_CHANNEL", "PRIVATE_CHANNEL"], "channelFilter": { "private_channel": ["C12345678"], "public_channel": ["C87654321"] }, "channelIdFilter": ["C12345678"], "sinceDate": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z", "lookBack": "7", "enableDeletionProtection": "false", "deletionProtectionThreshold": "15" }, "version": "1.0.0" } ```