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Slack is a proprietary cloud-based team collaboration tool.

Slack is a proprietary cloud-based team collaboration tool.

https://slack.com/

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Slack icon not visible any more in notification area

Not sure why but since recently, the Slack icon in bottom right notification area (Windows 10) isn't visible anymore despite Slack app being checked in "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" section. Consequently I need to keep Slack open at all…
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Slack: change browser to open links from desktop app

I use two browsers on my laptop - Brave for my personal stuff (Facebook, personal email, interesting things I want to read) and Firefox for my work browsing (work email, internal webpages, work communication). Normally I like having my default…
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How can I get the FULL list of slack emoji through API?

I am using the slack API to get the full list of emoji, so that when I get a message, I will just replace :squirrel: with the icon. The method https://slack.com/api/emoji.list works like a charm, but returns 30 icons only. I think this is correct…
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How can I color part of Slack incoming-webhook messages?

I want to compose a python script which sends a color-formatted message to a configured slack channel. I managed to send sentences of plain texts to slack channels but I could not figure out how to confer part of the sentences colors that I want. I…
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Execute slash command as slack bot

I'm writing a simple slack bot which should execute other slack commands upon being called. Everything is up and running, however the slack commands this bot issues don't seem to be executed. For instance my bot posts /giphy kitten every hour and…
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How do you tag people with a slack bot?

I built a bot for slack. It reads the message when a new user joins and I intend for it to post a message welcoming them: "Welcome @user! What are you building!?" When it posts @user it doesn't seem as though the actual "tag" is working. Do I need…
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What's the difference between a Slack channel's purpose and topic?

I'm new to Slack and just created my first channel. When setting up the channel, I added a purpose, but once created, there's also a place to add a topic. What's the difference between a channel's purpose and topic? They seem like the same thing.
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Access Slack files from a slack bot

I need a slack bot that's able to receive and save files send from slack chatrooms. The problem is: slack doesn't send file contents, but an array of links pointing to the file. Most of them, including download link are private and cannot be…
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Slack - how to post a link to network folder?

I'm using a webhook to post messages to Slack via PowerShell script and I'd like to include a link to a network folder. I was able to do it with however when the generated 'files' link is clicked nothing happens. Is…
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Simultaneously "Add to Slack" and "Sign in with Slack"

I'm working on a Slack app that also links with a web app, which users can log into using Slack. It's very common for a new user to need to both log into the web app and add the app to Slack. I'd like to let them do this with a single trip through…
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Slack - change week start day for message reminder

I'm using Slack reminders extensively. When reading a message I want to handle next week, I just use "Next Week" message reminder. However, my work week starts on Sunday, where this message would pop up on Monday as the default week start day. Is…
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slack bot scope missing while making api request

I have made a slack app in which I have a bot. I have selected channels:history, channels:read, channels:write under my permission scope, and also I have passed scopes "scope":"bot channel:history channel:read channel:write" while doing my oauth2…
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Slack bot fails to send message to restricted general channel via chat.postMessage

This is my first time trying to create a slack bot and I am following this template code to the word, I have not made any changes, and just remixed on glitch, copy-pasted the auth tokens correctly, things worked just fine. That is until I made the…
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Obtain Slack auth_token for Terraform google_monitoring_notification_channel resource

I'm looking to set up some alerts from gcloud -> slack, and so far have a test up and running having followed these instructions: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/support/notification-options?_ga=2.190773474.-879257953.1550134526#slack However,…
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How to see everyone who is online on slack?

We use the communication tool Slack. It shows online and away users that I have had direct message conversations with recently in my left sidebar. I would like to see everyone who is currently online, all the online users on our slack server, in a…
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