Handling button after view submission?

Description

Dear developers, bolt is awesome, thanks for making this available! I have a question about handling buttons after view submissions. My process is as follows:

1. Post a message with one action button.
2. Click the button and open a view.
3. Submit the view.

In bolt, the app.view construct has an ‘ack’ function but not a ‘say’ or ‘response’ function. How would I update the action button at step (1) to show a user that this view was submitted? I want to disable that button.

I hope you can help me!

PS: this is related (https://github.com/slackapi/bolt/issues/305) but I think we can only use ack() for error handling.

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[robinpapa]

@aoberoi That’s the solution! JSONify the string. Thank you!

[stevengill]

Hey @robinpapa,

I haven’t looked into this, but I think chat.update would allow you to update the original message (as well as the button). Want to try it out in your view submission handler?