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Knowledge Management

Slab
API integration

Ship Knowledge Management features without building the integration. Full Slab API access via Proxy, normalized data through Unified APIs — extend models and mappings to fit your product.

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Use Cases

Why integrate with Slab

Common scenarios for SaaS companies building Slab integrations for their customers.

01

Power AI assistants with internal knowledge from Slab

AI copilot and RAG-based SaaS products can ingest Slab posts and topics through Truto's Unified Knowledge Base API to answer employee questions like 'What's our expense policy?' — keeping the knowledge base always in sync via structured content retrieval.

02

Surface internal SOPs inside support ticketing workflows

Helpdesk and customer support platforms can query Slab documentation in real time to suggest relevant response templates and standard operating procedures to agents, reducing resolution time and improving consistency.

03

Automate employee onboarding with provisioning and knowledge delivery

HR and onboarding platforms can use Truto's Unified User Directory API to provision new hires in Slab with the correct role, while simultaneously pulling onboarding checklists and policy documents via the Knowledge Base API to display natively in their product.

04

Push AI-generated content directly into a team's knowledge base

Product analytics, feedback consolidation, and content generation tools can create and organize new posts in Slab programmatically, ensuring insights and specs land directly in the team's existing documentation workflow.

05

Sync user directories for access governance and auditing

Security, compliance, and IT management platforms can read Slab's user directory — including roles and organization data — to audit access, enforce policies, and maintain a unified view of SaaS user accounts across the organization.

What You Can Build

Ship these features with Truto + Slab

Concrete product features your team can ship faster by leveraging Truto’s Slab integration instead of building from scratch.

01

Knowledge-grounded AI answer engine

Ingest Slab pages and collections via the Unified Knowledge Base API, parse content, and feed it into your LLM pipeline so your product can answer employee questions grounded in up-to-date internal documentation.

02

Contextual knowledge panel for support agents

Surface relevant Slab posts and SOPs directly inside your ticketing UI by searching pages and collections in real time as agents handle customer issues.

03

Automated new-hire provisioning and onboarding checklist delivery

Create Slab user accounts with appropriate roles via the Unified User Directory API and pull onboarding content from the Knowledge Base API to embed in your HR platform's dashboard.

04

One-click publish from your product to Slab

Let your users push generated content — such as feature specs, meeting summaries, or retrospective notes — directly into Slab as organized posts within specific topics.

05

Cross-platform knowledge search widget

Build a universal search experience that queries Slab alongside other connected knowledge bases through Truto's unified interface, returning consistent results regardless of the source.

06

User access audit dashboard

Pull Slab users, roles, and organization data via the Unified User Directory API to give IT admins a single view of who has access to internal knowledge and at what permission level.

Unified APIs

Unified APIs for Slab

Skip writing code for every integration. Use Truto’s category-specific Unified APIs out of the box or customize the mappings with AI.

Unified Knowledge Base API

Collections

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Files

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Page-Content

Represents the content of a page

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Pages

Represents the pages, posts, articles in a knowledge base

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Unified User Directory API

Organizations

Organizations are the top level entity in the source application. Users are associated with an organization.

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Roles

The Role object represents a role of a User.

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Users

The User object represents a User.

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How It Works

From zero to integrated

Go live with Slab in under an hour. No boilerplate, no maintenance burden.

01

Link your customer’s Slab account

Use Truto’s frontend SDK to connect your customer’s Slab account. We handle all OAuth and API key flows — you don’t need to create the OAuth app.

02

We handle authentication

Don’t spend time refreshing access tokens or figuring out secure storage. We handle it and inject credentials into every API request.

03

Call our API, we call Slab

Truto’s Proxy API is a 1-to-1 mapping of the Slab API. You call us, we call Slab, and pass the response back in the same cycle.

04

Unified response format

Every response follows a single format across all integrations. We translate Slab’s pagination into unified cursor-based pagination. Data is always in the result attribute.

FAQs

Common questions about Slab on Truto

Authentication, rate limits, data freshness, and everything else you need to know before you integrate.

How does Slab's API work, and how does Truto handle it?

Slab exposes a GraphQL API authenticated via bot user tokens. Truto abstracts the GraphQL layer behind its Unified Knowledge Base and User Directory REST APIs, so you don't need to write GraphQL queries or handle Slab-specific response formats.

What authentication method is required to connect a Slab workspace?

Slab uses bot user API tokens for API access. Your end users generate a token from their Slab workspace settings and provide it during the connection flow in Truto.

How does Truto handle Slab's Quill Delta content format?

Slab stores post content in Quill Delta format, a JSON-based rich text representation. Truto's Unified Knowledge Base API normalizes page content so you can work with it through a consistent interface without writing a custom Quill Delta parser.

Which Unified APIs does this integration support?

The Slab integration maps to two Truto Unified APIs: the Unified Knowledge Base API (covering Collections, Files, Page-Content, and Pages) and the Unified User Directory API (covering Organizations, Roles, and Users). Specific tools are built on request based on your workflow requirements.

Does Slab support webhooks for real-time data sync?

Yes, Slab's API supports webhook subscriptions for events like post.published and post.updated. This enables near-real-time sync workflows — for example, re-indexing content in an AI pipeline whenever documentation changes.

Are there rate limits on the Slab API that I should be aware of?

Slab enforces rate limits on its GraphQL API. Truto handles pagination and request management on your behalf, but for high-volume ingestion scenarios you should consult Slab's current rate limit documentation and coordinate with Truto support to optimize throughput.

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