# Slack integration needs **URL:** \ **Category:** Rasa Open Source\ **Created:** [August 22, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/slack-integration-needs/14693 "2019-08-22T23:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ihoochie](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/ihoochie/32/4693_2.png) [@ihoochie](https://forum.rasa.com/u/ihoochie)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/slack-integration-needs/14693/1 "2019-08-22T23:04:15Z")
Hey there! 👋 I’m building a Slack chatbot assistent for my team. I just set up a simple bot, providing the Slack bot token to the credentials.yml file. It wokrs fine, but I don’t understand how to move further to cover my needs, which are: 1. The Bot should be called by keyword (e. g. Hey bot!) 2. The replies shoud be sent to a thread, not to a channel 3. If a user write a message to the Bot with direct messages, it should also reply to DM. 4. I don’t want the bot token in credentials.yml to be unencrypted on the production enviroment. 5. And also, I want the Bot to be able to answer not only to one particular channel. I want it to be accessible in sereral channel with similar, but different functionality. I have watched the great video tutorial by [Justina](https://jpboost.com/2018/02/06/creating-a-chatbot-with-rasa-nlu-and-rasa-core/), where she uses rasa\_slack\_connector.py to set up connection beetween Rasa and Slack. With that tool I could easily reach my goals. But now, I do not know how to implement the same functionality. I also can see several methods in rasa.core.channels.slack (like send\_attachment and send\_text\_with\_buttons), but can’t find information of how to use them. I would really appreciate if anyone could help with this. ---
**Author:** ![ihoochie](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/ihoochie/32/4693_2.png) [@ihoochie](https://forum.rasa.com/u/ihoochie)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/slack-integration-needs/14693/2 "2019-08-29T21:58:36Z")
Any help? 🙏