# Custom Slack Renderer

**URL:** <https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/custom-slack-renderer/1039>\
**Category:** Archive\
**Created:** [May 4, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/custom-slack-renderer/1039 "2022-05-04T00:36:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![sleeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@sleeman](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/sleeman)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/custom-slack-renderer/1039/1 "2022-05-04T00:36:58Z")

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I’ve implemented a custom slack renderer and I’ve placed this file in the great\_expectation/plugins directory and configured it the checkpoint action\_list as follows. But during runtime it’s unable to locate the custom renderer. Please let me know if I’m missing something here. Thanks.

```auto
 - name: send_slack_notification_on_validation_result
    action:
      class_name: SlackNotificationAction
      slack_webhook: ${SLACK_WEBHOOK}
      notify_on: failure
      notify_with:
        - local_site
      renderer:
        module_name: great_expectations.plugins.slack_custom_renderer
        class_name: SlackCustomRenderer

```