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Hi all. I'm trying to write a simple Slack bot / Netsuite integration. But I'm having trouble with how to approach ajax requests in suitescript. Are there any good example scripts regarding this?

Might as well use NS’ out of the box N/https module

Do you mean you’re trying to signal from Slack back to NetSuite

Other way around. So when a sales order is created, it sends a post request to a slackbot, which then sends it in the appropriate channel

You are just using a slack webhook, then?

That should be a pretty simple POST request using the N/https module

oh but you want to route based on information in the SO?

Well the filtering I can do on my server. I tried using the modules, but I think the issue was that my script wasn't set as SS 2.0 initially. I'm completely green to 2.0 scripts/modules :grimacing:

HI Blake, I’ve done something a bit like this.

Just as a test so far but it worked.  I set something up to post to a Slack channel whenever someone viewed a transaction.  Here’s how it worked.  I created a SuiteScript (Workflow Action Script) with a custom action called `slackAttack()`.  This action sends a request to a PHP script on my server, which handles sending a message to the Slack channel.

```function slackAttack() { 
    
    // Build the post message.
    var tx = context.newRecord;
    
    var tran = tx.getValue({fieldId: 'tranid'});
    
    // Who?
    var user = runtime.getCurrentUser();
    
    var message = user.name + ' viewed the transaction ' + tran;
    
    log.debug({title: '', details: message});    	
    
    // ID of the Slack channel to send to.
    var channel = 'asdfasdf';
    
    // URL of the PHP script on my server.
    var slack_url = '<https://path.to.my/slackhandler.php>';
    
    var request_data = {
    	url: slack_url,
    	method: 'POST',
    	data: {message: message, channel: channel }
    };
    
    var req = <http://https.post|https.post>({
    	url: slack_url,
    	body: {type: 'slackattack', message: message, channel: channel }
    });
    
    log.debug({title:'Resp', details:req.body});
    
}```

```/* slackhandler.php */

// What's the message?
$message = $_POST['message'];
        
// What channel is it going to?
$channel = $_POST['channel'];

// Your bot's token generated through the Slack Developer Console.
$user_token = SLACK_OATH_TOKEN_BOT;

// Name of your Slackbot.
$slackbot = 'My SlackBot';
        
// Send the message to the channel.
$ch = curl_init('<https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage>');
        
$data = http_build_query([
    	'token'=&gt;$user_token,
	'channel'=&gt;$channel,
	'text'=&gt;$message,
	'username'=&gt;slackbot
]);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);```

<@U4TPAFXEC> I think that's basically what i'm after. This is SS2.0 yes? Thanks!

my solution requires you to have a PHP script somewhere