Use case
Following the newly launched Coveo Slack Application, it is now possible to search your whole Coveo index directly from Slack with a single click or slash command. This is definitely a great approach to search, but what about Slack users that are not aware of this feature but actually need it? This is the use-case we will tackle in this project: automatically answering questions in targeted Slack channels.
It is not a secret that some Slack channels become a search dump and it is not always easy to address them all, even when the answers are sometimes easy to find. A great way to tackle this problem is to try to find questions and send them to the Coveo Search API. A simple way to do this is to listen to all the messages sent on a targeted channels, and only trigger a search on the ones containing a question mark.
A simple architecture for this idea would be to host a serverless function in AWS Lambda, and send the detected question to Coveo’s Search API. For better versioning, deployment, and monitoring approach, a serverless Application will be used for this project.