Slack Web API

/views.open

GET

/views.open

views

Open a view for a user.

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request GET 'https://slack.com/api/views.open?trigger_id=&view=' \
--header 'token;'

Response Example

200 - response

{
  "ok": true,
  "view": {
    "app_id": "AA4928AQ",
    "blocks": [
      {
        "block_id": "a_block_id",
        "element": {
          "action_id": "an_action_id",
          "type": "plain_text_input"
        },
        "label": {
          "emoji": true,
          "text": "A simple label",
          "type": "plain_text"
        },
        "optional": false,
        "type": "input"
      }
    ],
    "bot_id": "BA13894H",
    "callback_id": "identify_your_modals",
    "clear_on_close": false,
    "external_id": "",
    "hash": "156772938.1827394",
    "id": "VMHU10V25",
    "notify_on_close": false,
    "private_metadata": "Shh it is a secret",
    "root_view_id": "VMHU10V25",
    "state": {
      "values": {}
    },
    "submit": {
      "text": "Create",
      "type": "plain_text"
    },
    "team_id": "T8N4K1JN",
    "title": {
      "text": "Quite a plain modal",
      "type": "plain_text"
    },
    "type": "modal"
  }
}

Request

Query Params

trigger_id

string

required

Exchange a trigger to post to the user.

view

string

required

A view payload. This must be a JSON-encoded string.

Header Params

token

string

required

Authentication token. Requires scope: none

Responses

🟢200Typical success response includes the opened view payload.

application/json

Body

This method either only returns a brief _OK_ response or a verbose schema is not available for this method.

enum<boolean>

required

Allowed value:

true

Additional properties

integer | number | string | boolean

optional

🔴500Typical error response, before getting to any possible validation errors.

Modified at 2023-08-15 05:39:46

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