Connecting Amazon Q Business to Slack using APIs - Amazon Q Business
Slack JSON schema

Connecting Amazon Q Business to Slack using APIs

You use the CreateDataSource action to connect a data source to your Amazon Q application.

Then, you use the configuration parameter to provide a JSON schema with all other configuration information specific to your data source connector.

For an example of the API request, see CreateDataSource in the Amazon Q API Reference.

Slack JSON schema

The following is the Slack JSON schema:

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "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": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "fieldForUserId": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "exclusionPatterns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "inclusionPatterns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "crawlBotMessages": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "excludeArchived": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "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]*$"
        }
      },
      "required": [
      ]
    },
    "syncMode": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "FORCED_FULL_CRAWL",
        "FULL_CRAWL",
        "CHANGE_LOG"
      ]
    },
    "type" : {
      "type" : "string",
      "pattern": "SLACK"
    },
    "enableIdentityCrawler": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "secretArn": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "version": {
    "type": "string",
    "anyOf": [
      {
        "pattern": "1.0.0"
      }
    ]
  },
  "required": [
    "connectionConfiguration",
    "repositoryConfigurations",
    "syncMode",
    "additionalProperties",
    "secretArn",
    "type",
    "enableIdentityCrawler"
  ]
}
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The following table provides information about important JSON keys to configure.

Configuration Description
connectionConfiguration Configuration information for the endpoint for the data source.
repositoryEndpointMetadata The endpoint information for the data source.
teamId The Slack team ID you copied from your Slack main page URL.
repositoryConfigurations Configuration information for the content of the data source. For example, configuring specific types of content and field mappings.

  • All

 A list of objects that map the attributes or field names of your Slack pages and assets to Amazon Q index field names.
additionalProperties Additional configuration options for your content in your data source.
isCrawlAcl Specify true to crawl access control information from documents.
Note

Amazon Q Business crawls ACL information by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents your end users have access to. See Authorization for more details.
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.
fieldForUserId Specify field to use for UserId for ACL crawling.

  • 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.

  • 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.
crawlBotMessages true to crawl Slack bot messages.
excludeArchived true to exclude archived messages from crawl.
conversationType The type of conversation that you want to index whether PUBLIC_CHANNEL, PRIVATE_CHANNEL, GROUP_MESSAGE and DIRECT_MESSAGE.
channelFilter The type of channel that you want to index whether private_channel or public_channel.
channelIdFilter You can choose to crawl specific channels vy channel ID using the channelIdFilter.
sinceDate You can choose to configure a sinceDate parameter so that the Slack connector crawls content based on a specific sinceDate.
lookBack You can choose to configure a lookBack parameter so that the Slack connector crawls lookBack content.
syncMode

Specify whether Amazon Q should update your index by syncing all documents or only new, modified, and deleted documents. You can choose between the following options:

  • Use FORCED_FULL_CRAWL to freshly re-crawl all content and replace existing content each time your data source syncs with your index.

  • Use FULL_CRAWL to incrementally crawl only new, modified, and deleted content each time your data source syncs with your index.

  • Use CHANGE_LOG to incrementally crawl only new and modified content each time your data source syncs with your index.
type The type of data source. Specify SLACK as your data source type.
enableIdentityCrawler Specify true to use the Amazon Q identity crawler to sync identity/principal information on users and groups with access to specific documents.
Note

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.
secretArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an AWS Secrets Manager secret that contains the key-value pairs required to connect to your Slack. The secret must contain a JSON structure with the following keys:

{
    "slackToken": "token"
}
version The version of this template that's currently supported.