Slack name_taken Error When Creating New Channel

I keep getting the following error and I have no idea what to do, I am very new to all of this. Suggestions please!

You can reauthorize the slack connection and recheck the data mapped

Welcome to the Make community!

No, this has nothing to do with the connection or data mapping.

As described by your error message,

Error: name_taken

The error you are seeing means that you are trying to create a channel that already has the same name. You cannot have duplicate channel names, and they all have to be unique.

This happens because you are removing non-alpha characters from your variable, and the result matches an existing channel.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

@samliew

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