--- title: "Connect My Music Staff and Slack - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Email\" fires in My Music Staff, your agent runs \"Send Direct Message\" in Slack." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-slack" --- # Connect My Music Staff and Slack When **New Email** fires in [My Music Staff](https://apiant.ai/connections/my-music-staff), your agent runs **Send Direct Message** in [Slack](https://apiant.ai/connections/slack), or **New Channel** in Slack to **Find Attendance Records** in My Music Staff. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. My Music Staff **8** triggers My Music Staff **13** actions Slack **15** triggers Slack **60** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want My Music Staff and Slack to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What My Music Staff and Slack can do together ### From My Music Staff to Slack - When **New Email** in My Music Staff then **Send Direct Message** in Slack - When **New Invoice** in My Music Staff then **Send Ephemeral Message** in Slack ### From Slack to My Music Staff - When **New Channel** in Slack then **Find Attendance Records** in My Music Staff - When **New Channel Member** in Slack then **Add Calendar Event** in My Music Staff Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with My Music Staff and Slack ## Triggers and actions 23 triggers · 73 actions - Trigger **Attendance Taken** Triggers when attendance is taken or edited for a calendar event. - Trigger **New Email** Triggers when a new email message is created. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created (manually or by auto-invoicing). - Trigger **New SMS** Triggers when a new SMS message is created. - Trigger **New Student** Triggers when a new student is added to your My Music Staff account. - Trigger **Payment Added** Triggers when a payment is recorded in a Family Account. - Trigger **Student Added to Event** Triggers when a student is added to an event on the calendar. - Trigger **Student Updated** Triggers when a student's profile information is updated. - Action **Add Calendar Event** /calendar/event (body CalendarEventInputItem) — creates a calendar event with its student attendees, which creates Attendance records for each student. - Action **Add Payment** Records a payment in the Family Account - Action **Add Student** Adds a new student to your My Music Staff account. - Action **Find All Parents** Finds all parents based on Family ID or on search text. - Action **Find Attendance Records** Searches attendance records by date range, student, teacher, event, or status. Returns matching records with a total count. - Action **Find Event** Finds an event based on Event ID. - Action **Find Parent** Finds first Parent based on Family ID or on search text. - Action **Find Student** Finds students based on Student ID or on search text. - Action **List Lesson Notes** Returns a student's past lessons, newest first, with the attendance status and the lesson notes written for the student, the parent and the teacher. - Action **List Student Repertoire** Returns the pieces assigned to a student with each piece's progress status (Recommended, Requested, In Progress or Completed) and the dates it was started and completed. - Action **Search Repertoire** Searches your studio's repertoire library by title or composer, instrument and genre, and returns the matching pieces. - Action **Search Students** Searches your students by name, email, family or status and returns the matching students with their family details. - Action **Update Student** Updates a student's details, such as, status (Active, Trial, Lead, Waiting, Inactive), name, email, phone, birthday, etc. - Trigger **New Channel** Triggers when a new channel is created in the workspace. - Trigger **New Channel (instant)** Triggers when a new channel is created (Slack event channel_created). - Trigger **New Channel Member** Triggers when a member joins a chosen channel (Slack event member_joined_channel). - Trigger **New File (instant)** Triggers when a new file is uploaded to the workspace (Slack event file_created). - Trigger **New Mention (instant)** Triggers when a username or keyword is mentioned in a channel. Events API message events with keyword filter. - Trigger **New Message Posted to Channel** Triggers when a message is posted to a chosen channel (Slack event message.channels). - Trigger **New Message Posted to Private Channel** Triggers when a message is posted to a chosen private channel or group DM (Slack events message.groups, message.mpim). - Trigger **New Pinned Item** Triggers when an item is pinned in a channel. - Trigger **New Public Message Posted Anywhere** Triggers when a message is posted to any public channel (Slack event message.channels). - Trigger **New Reaction Added** Triggers when an emoji reaction is added to a message (Slack event reaction_added). - Trigger **New Saved Message** Triggers when a message or file is saved (starred) (Slack event star_added). - Trigger **New Team Custom Emoji** Triggers when a custom emoji is added to the workspace (Slack event emoji_changed). - Trigger **New Thread Reply** Triggers when a new reply is added to a message thread. - Trigger **New User** Triggers when a new user joins the workspace. Polling; deduped by user id. - Trigger **New User (instant)** Triggers when a new user joins the workspace (Slack event team_join). - Action **Add Bookmark** Add a bookmark to a channel. - Action **Add Reaction** Add an emoji reaction to a message. - Action **Add Star** Save a message or file by starring it. - Action **Archive Channel** Archive a channel. - Action **Complete Reminder** Mark a reminder as complete. - Action **Create Canvas** Create a standalone canvas document. - Action **Create Channel** Create a new public or private channel. - Action **Create Channel Canvas** Create a canvas attached to a channel. - Action **Create Reminder** Create a reminder for a user at a specified time. - Action **Delete Canvas** Delete a canvas. - Action **Delete File** Delete a file from the workspace. - Action **Delete Message** Delete a message from a channel by timestamp. - Action **Delete Reminder** Delete a reminder. - Action **Delete Scheduled Message** Cancel a scheduled message before it is sent. - Action **Edit Bookmark** Edit an existing channel bookmark. - Action **Edit Canvas** Edit the content of a canvas. - Action **Find Channel by Name** List channels filtered to locate a channel by name (client filters the returned list). - Action **Find User by Email** Look up a Slack user by their email address. - Action **Get Channel Messages** Fetch the message history of a channel. - Action **Get File Info** Get information about a file. - Action **Get Message Permalink** Get a permanent link to a specific message. - Action **Get Message Reactions** Get the emoji reactions on a message. - Action **Get Team Info** Get information about the workspace. - Action **Get Thread Replies** Get the replies in a message thread. - Action **Get User Info** Get profile information for a Slack user by ID. - Action **Get User Presence** Get a user's current presence status. - Action **Get User Profile** Get a user's profile fields. - Action **Invite User to Channel** Invite one or more users to a channel (comma-separated user IDs). - Action **Join Channel** Join a public channel. - Action **Leave Channel** Leave a channel. - Action **List Bookmarks** List the bookmarks in a channel. - Action **List Channel Members** List the members of a channel. - Action **List Channels** List channels in the workspace (public and private). - Action **List Custom Emojis** List the workspace's custom emojis. - Action **List Files** List files in the workspace, optionally filtered by channel or user. - Action **List Pinned Items** List the items pinned in a channel. - Action **List Scheduled Messages** List messages scheduled to be sent later. - Action **List User Groups** List the workspace's user groups. - Action **List Users** List all users in the workspace. - Action **List User's Channels** List the channels a user is a member of. - Action **Mark Channel Read** Set the read cursor position in a channel. - Action **Pin Message** Pin a message to a channel. - Action **Remove Bookmark** Remove a bookmark from a channel. - Action **Remove Reaction** Remove an emoji reaction from a message. - Action **Remove Star** Remove a star from a message or file. - Action **Remove User from Channel** Remove a member from a channel. - Action **Rename Channel** Rename a channel. - Action **Schedule Message** Schedule a message to be sent to a channel at a future Unix time. - Action **Search Files** Search files across the workspace. - Action **Search Messages** Search messages across the workspace. - Action **Send Direct Message** Open a DM with a user and post a message to it. - Action **Send Ephemeral Message** Send a message in a channel that is visible only to one user. - Action **Send Message** Post a message to a channel, private group, or DM. - Action **Set Channel Purpose** Set the purpose (description) for a channel. - Action **Set Channel Topic** Set the topic for a channel. - Action **Set User Presence** Set the authenticated user's presence status. - Action **Unarchive Channel** Restore an archived channel. - Action **Unpin Message** Remove a pinned message from a channel. - Action **Update Message** Update an existing message in a channel by timestamp. - Action **Upload File** Upload a file and share it to one or more channels. ## Each app on its own - [ **My Music Staff** My Music Staff is a tool for private music teachers and schools, managing scheduling, payments, attendance...](https://apiant.ai/connections/my-music-staff) - [ **Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connections/slack) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from My Music Staff - [ **My Music Staff to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-salesforce) - [ **My Music Staff to ElevenLabs** ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-elevenlabs) - [ **My Music Staff to Pixabay** Pixabay is a free image and video library. Search over 4 million royalty-free photos, illustrations, vector...](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-pixabay) - [ **My Music Staff to Steady** Steady is a subscription platform for blogs, journalism, podcasts and other content creators.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-steady) - [ **My Music Staff to Who Hosts This** Discover the hosting provider for any web site](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-who-hosts-this) - [ **My Music Staff to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-mailchimp) ## More into Slack - [ **Salesforce to Slack** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-slack) - [ **Google Calendar to Slack** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-slack) - [ **Mailchimp to Slack** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-slack) - [ **Stripe to Slack** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stripe-to-slack) - [ **Shopify to Slack** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-slack) - [ **Notion to Slack** A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.](https://apiant.ai/connect/notion-to-slack) Questions ## My Music Staff and Slack, answered ### ### What can start an automation from My Music Staff? Any of My Music Staff's 8 triggers in the catalog, including New Email, New Invoice, New SMS and New Student. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Slack when something happens in My Music Staff? Any of Slack's 60 actions, including Create Canvas, Create Channel, Create Channel Canvas and Create Reminder. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Slack to My Music Staff? Yes. When something happens in Slack, your agent can act in My Music Staff too. This page covers both directions: Slack's triggers and My Music Staff's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for My Music Staff or Slack? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use My Music Staff and Slack without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.