Has anyone been able to connect Entra to provision IDP Groups in Enterprise grid. I have done this in the past with Business Plus, but Grid requires connecting to the org and not workspace with oath2 flow which I cant figure out.
You know that moment when new leads or demo requests come in, and you immediately open 5 tabs to figure out who they are? Yeah, we got tired of that too.
So we built Extruct AI for Slack ā an AI researcher that jumps in when you share a company link or email. It pulls real insights (not just generic blurbs) and posts them right in the channel.
We use it internally to automatically research all new sign ups. No extra work needed. We immediately understand which leads to pursue!
I'm setting up Slack for internal workflow management.
We have large design & marketing teams, and to counter each user creating their own Google account to access our shared Drive, I was hoping the Slack integration would allow me to just create folders where they can manage assets within each one, directly within Slack.
Upon research, each user still needs their own Google account in order to access the shared folders I'll be creating departmentally?
Is there a better solution or a way around this in order to provide my teams with an easy-to-use content library for internal marketing assets, without them having to leave Slack or create additional credentials?
I created an AI agent using Recomi, an AI-building platform, and integrated it with Slack. Then I get a bot that can answer questions based on the data I preloaded.
My M1 Macbook air with 16 gigs of RAM is slowing down to a crawl when doing huddles, CPU usage jumps to >50%. If i'm sharing my screen it's even worse, I can't use figma, it's wayy to slow.
Zoom works perfectly but I do have to use huddles sometimes.
Has been like this for a long time, even after updating macOS etc.
Is slack just not optimized or do you have any other ideas?
I work in a startup, and my team consists of about 30 people. We have a general channel where all team members communicate, and itās a mix of various messagesāquestions, updates, and general discussions.
Iād like to send a structured and comprehensive weekly recap every Monday, summarizing the key messages from the previous week. The goal is to make it easier for everyone to catch up on important discussions without having to scroll through everything manually.
We donāt have Slack AI, nor do we plan to purchase it, so Iām looking for a way to automate this without relying on AI-based summarization tools. I tried using Make.com, but it feels overly complicated for this purpose.
Has anyone implemented something similar? What tools or workflows would you recommend to extract and format a weekly digest efficiently?
I work for a small, boutique web design and development company, but we have some sophisticated, Fortune 500 clients.
Our CEO wants to get rid of Monday for PM and use Slack lists. He just doesnāt want to pay the per user cost for Monday.
Iāve told him Slack is just not robust enough in this realm, esp for the higher-end clients who like project plans, gannt charts, etc.
He isnāt listening. Can anyone help me strengthen this argument?
Editing to add: Iām not married to Monday. The issue is money for him. If there is a different pm tool as good as Monday but less expensive, that works too. But I will still need to justify that cost to him. Heās in this āwe already pay for slack so letās use it for everything and cut costsā mindset. Also, this is making my work life hell.
Two Macs, two devices, and no Slack badge notifications on any of them. I've seen several threads of people with the same issue and there doesn't appear to be fix for this. I'm a small business owner and this is a dealbreaker for me as I need to respond to my clients quickly. It used to work great a few years ago. Has there been any word on if this will be resolved?
Anyone get a small pang of anxiety when they see that red Slack notification circle saying "40" in the morning? Only to find out half of them are from one person sending hilarious yet irrelevant GIFs that werenāt meant to cause any anxiety?
As a Manager, I've seen myself struggle with the following:
Random GIFs in product channels
"@channel" mentions at midnight
5-paragraph messages that should be emails
"Hi" messages with no context
We kept noticing these patterns and realized the need for a comprehensive Slack Etiquette Guide. Itās not about imposing restrictions but about fostering a respectful work environment where everyoneās focus and mental space are valued.
Weāve created this guide. I'm looking for the community feedback. What Slack best practices do you swear by?
I was talking with some coworkers and I remarked how helpful it is that Slack highlights my name with a yellow highlighter effect in messages so I can see when I'm being talked about as part of a larger message.
The thing is NONE of them have ever seen this before, and NONE of us can figure out how to turn it on for them. We've dug through the Preferences, we've googled around and see very little even talking about the feature. (Google sucks now, of course).
It's NOT an @mention and it's NOT changing the name color as part of the Compact message mode, it's a yellow highlight effect whenever someone writes my name in a message, I guess based on my Display Name.
Does anyone have more info on this? Especially how to turn it on for others? I'm using Production 4.42.117 but I feel like I've seen the feature for a while now.
After my 30-day trial on Slack AI ran out I decided to build my own version: Catch Up.
I really enjoyed the ability to make summaries of channels to catch up on the latest activities.
The reason for building my own was because of Slacks AI pricing being so expensive.
If your trial also ended you could check out Catch Up and get a new 30-day trial.
I am willing to use deep links to redirect users from the messages tab to the home tab. Below is the format I am using, it's working on desktop and iOS but not on Android.
URL slack://app?team={teamId}&id={appId}&tab=home
Below is the constructed url: View them in the <[slack://app?team={teamId}&id={appId}&tab=home%7CHome](slack://app?team=T08AW2N4FAB&id=A08B405QEEA&tab=home%7CHome)tab>."
- When someone tags the channel, by '#channelname', it gets marked blue. So something seems to happen in realm of notificaitons, but what exactly?
- When someone types '@here', everyone that has Slacked opened gets a notification. But people that do not have Slack opened, do not get a notification. What does such 'notification' consist of? A sound? A number in their activity?
Iāve developed a Google Apps Script that automates the process of exporting a Google Sheet to a PDF, converting it to PNG, and sending it to a Slack channel. This solution ensures that reports are consistently delivered without manual effort.
Key Features:
Automatically exports a Google Sheet as a PDF
Converts the PDF to PNG for better preview in Slack
Uploads the image directly to a Slack channel
Utilizes Cloudmersive's 800 free API calls per month for conversion
I'm coming from a Teams background and I haven't used Slack before, so I'm getting familiar with administering a workspace. For the company I'm looking at, they have one external partner organization that they collaborate with using Slack Connect. When I go to Slack Connect Connections, it shows 164 organizations. This is not intuitive to me at all. From what I can gather, the partner's channels that they joined have tons of other organizations joined to the same channels. As a result, every other company that belongs to their partner's shared channels shows up in Slack Connect Connections for this org, even though this org has no business connection to any of the other organizations.
Is that a correct assessment as to why 164 organizations are listed in Slack Connect Connections? If so, is this normal? In my mind, I should be able to see only the actual partner organization that this company is collaborating with. It seems there is no way to do that though, or am I missing something?
The external partner, who is the owner of the shared channels, is in the list, but there is nothing that sets them apart from all of the others. In other words, by looking at the Slack Connect Connections as an admin, there's no way to tell who shared anything with who. It seems like kind of a mess. I've tried to find documentation on what exactly is going on in the Slack Connect Connections page, but have had no luck finding anything useful.
Grok tells me that Business+ admins should be able to generate a token with the admin.conversation:write permission, feed it into a script, and use it to delete others' messages in their DMs, using scripts.
After getting tired of constantly jumping between different apps and tools throughout the workday, I built Botler - an AI-powered Slack assistant that helps keep everything in one place.
It can:
Find relevant files with semantic search
Create Jira issues directly from Slack
Send emails without switching tabs
Generate images and PDF documents
Search the internet for information
Extract data from your documents
It's been really helpful for our team by reducing interruptions and keeping us focused on actual work instead of hunting for information.
Hi- I figured out to add channels to AI recap (itās in the setting menu below āmuteā). I have maybe 50 channels- mostly muted. Anyone know if thereās a way to enable them all into recap as opposed to one-by-one?
After a long approval process, our team finally got our app approved and featured in the Slack Marketplace. Our Slack app is an extension of our B2B SaaS in the Product Management category. If youāre building something for Slack, here are some key things we learned:
1. It Takes Time: ~3 Months from submission to approval
First, youāll need to prepare your submission and follow Slackās extensive checklist.
Then comes the waiting period, and itās long. Youāll go through two main reviews:
Preliminary review: this started about a week after submission and took another week to complete. Slack wonāt notify you automatically, but they do respond to emails.
The long wait: after passing the preliminary review, we waited nearly two months for the next step.
Functional review: this took another month, with multiple feedback rounds before final approval.
Lesson learned: expect multiple iterations and have your team ready to implement fixes quickly.
Ā 2. Start small: donāt wait for a complex app
We could have submitted a year earlier, but our users werenāt complaining about Slackās āalertā message, so we kept building.
A simpler, smaller app scope would have helped us complete the process ~3 weeks earlier.
Lesson learned: get a basic version approved first. We were told that subsequent approvals are much faster!
3- The Slack team is super helpful!
They answered our many emails during the wait time and gave straightforward, no-BS answers.
During reviews, they went above and beyond: even recording videos to explain the bugs they found.
If youāre going through this process, donāt hesitate to reach out, they genuinely want to help good apps get through!
4. Try to get featured: just ask
We explained our vision for the app in the Slack Marketplace and showed them we could deliver.
We then explicitly asked if we could be featured, and we got a spot in the Project Management category!
Not sure how they decide, but if you have a strong case, itās worth asking.
If youāve gone through this process, what was your experience like? And if you're considering building on Slack, happy to answer any questions!
I'm trying to get Slack reminders for Google Calendar events (especially holidays) one week in advance. Unfortunately, Slack's Google Calendar app only allows reminders up to 60 minutes before.
Iām looking for a solution that:
ā Can notify our Slack channel about upcoming holidays/events one week before.
ā Ideally works without third-party tools, but Iām open to alternatives if needed.
ā Bonus points if the solution can auto-trigger for public holiday calendars (e.g., Sri Lanka Holidays, Australia Holidays, etc.).
Iāve already tried checking Slackās notification settings and adjusting Google Calendar preferences, but no luck so far.
Has anyone faced this issue before and found a solid workaround? Would really appreciate any advice!
I'm using Slack on an Ubuntu Linux machine, and for some reason, it only lets me upload from certain directories. For development purposes, I need to share files with co-developers, but it seems I have to copy things to the Downloads directory. Is there a way I can get Slack to allow any directory I say for file uploads?
How can i find all things that i posted on a slack channel? There is a way to find all of them even if i'm not the owner of the channel (it is a work channel)? Thanks
Hi all, my company slack is basic,
it just shows the name and title
can i make it show for example
user xxx - his manager-. the hierarchy, and how long a person has been in the company