Slack Technologies, Inc.

Leslie Newell

Michael Brevoort

Angela Kirchhof

Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee

Raquel Velez

Matthew Nolan Caudill

Helen Kupp

Stephen Wood

Allen James Ferrick

Brad Harris

Melissa Khuat

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to render one or more workflow interface objects to a group-based communication apparatus in association with an operational sequence set returned by a query. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to detect a workflow trigger event associated with a workflow identifier, retrieve an operational sequence set based upon at least the workflow identifier from a group-based communication workflow repository, initiate the operational sequence set, and cause rendering of one or more workflow interface objects to the group-based communication interface. In some embodiments, the operational sequence sets are associated with a group-defined template.

Group-based communication apparatus configured to implement operational sequence sets and render workflow interface objects within a group-based communication system

A computer-readable media, method, and system for calling a function within a group-based communication system. The function may be initiated according to a trigger condition and is associated with arguments and return values. To carry out the function, an HTTP request is generated and sent to an HTTP server, which sends an HTTP callback to a group-based communication system server. The HTTP callback may include return values indicative of either a successful completion of the function or an error.

Asynchronous distributed modular function calling

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Leslie Newell