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Slack select menu provider

Serve search completion data to interactive Slack select menus.

Static source structure

data.json

{
    "source-1": [
        "item-1",
        "item-2",
        "item-3",
    ],
    "source-2": [
        "item-1",
        "item-2",
        "item-3",
    ]
}

Dynamic source structure

⚠️ Not fully implemented yet.

Source selection format

• Query to source-1 without restricting the number of results: source-1
• Query to source-2 with a maximum of 10 results: source-2:10

Example interactive block

[
  {
    "type": "section",
    "text": {
      "type": "mrkdwn",
      "text": "Select items from source-1..."
    },
    "accessory": {
      "action_id": "source-2:10",
      "type": "multi_external_select",
      "placeholder": {
        "type": "plain_text",
        "text": "Select items..."
      },
      "min_query_length": 0
    }
  }
]