I’m trying to create a new Slack channel, using a field from a previous step in my scenario. It’s returning this on the “create new channel” step…
Error: invalid_name_specials (200).
I know that Slack requires channel names to be all lower case, with no special characters of any kind - and I’m sure there must be a way to strip those out, or drop upper case to lower case, but I don’t know how.
Any help is appreciated!
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To make the word lowercase you can use this function and you can find more such functions here https://www.make.com/en/help/functions/string-functions
Let me know if this worked for you!
Thanks for the help @Automate_with_Rezwan - I have tried that (see the image) and it still is showing the same error.
That only makes it lowercase, but does not remove non-alphabet characters.
You need to also use the built-in function replace with a regex:
{{ replace(lower(2.name); "/[^a-z]+/g"; emptystring) }}
Please use the {{lower}} function to make the text lowercase and the {{replace}} function to change any special characters. Remember, the {{lower}} function only works with text (strings), so ensure that the name variable is mapped as a string, not a collection.
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@samliew - that fixed my Slack problem - thank you!
No problem, glad I could help!
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