Slack notifications on Forge apps after migration?

[Oksanа]

Hi all!

We’re migrating our Jira app to Forge. Can we integrate Slack to send notifications on specific app events? If yes, what’s the recommended Forge approach?

[Moses]

In Forge, listen for the Jira events you care about; for example, issue_created and workflow transitions. Use that handler to call Slack via an incoming webhook or bot at chat.postMessage. Store the Slack credentials as environment variables in Forge, and send a formatted message from your function whenever your conditions are met-no extra server needed.

[Oksanа]

However, Slack incoming webhooks are treated as an external resource in the manifest, and using external resources prevents us from migrating the app to Forge.

[Mel Paisley]

@Oksanа That's right, if you want to make an external call via fetch within Forge that would need to be defined in the manifest as an external resource - but I'm confused as this shouldn't prevent you from creating a Forge app.