The cannel list of Slack app on my Mac shows a channel called #everyone.
I can't remember joining or creating such a channel?
Is #everyone channel generated automatically by Slack?
I contacted Slack support regarding my question here and this is the response:
I've checked this internally with the team here and can confirm that
we have changed the name of the #general channel to #everyone for a
small number of new teams. The aim of this change is to help with some
user confusion around the difference between #general and #random and
why you can't leave #general.
If you're not happy with the change in name, you're free to rename
this back to #general by hitting the gear ion > Additional options >
Rename this channel.
I hope it helps.
Only channel that is auto generated by Slack as far as I know is the #general channel.
Not sure this question is entirely on topic as per SO guidelines:
https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic
Maybe look at stackexchange, there appears to a wealth of Slack related questions and answers there.
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My organization recently implemented Microsoft Teams and is experiencing issues with users tagging #General unnecessarily, posting in the wrong channel, and posting inappropriate content (not necessarily NSFW but off-topic).
Slack has third-party tools that allow you to set rules for a channel and, if a rule is triggered, the message is automatically deleted. For example, if a user inadvertently tapped their yubikey and sent it to the entire organization, there is a bot that will recognize the key and immediately delete the message. It's effectively the same concept as the AutoMod functionality in Reddit.
I've been looking all over the place but can't seem to find any articles about this type of feature. Does Microsoft Teams allow for any functionality like this?
Currently Teams have functionalities such as sending notification from external app to Teams channel via incoming webhook. And also using proactive message notifications.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/webhooks-and-connectors/how-to/add-incoming-webhook
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/conversations/send-proactive-messages?tabs=dotnet#get-the-user-id-or-teamchannel-id
I'm building my first Teams app which will have two primary functions:
Proactively send a message to the channel (the bot is installed into) when a specific event occurs on my backend.
Members of the channel reacts to the message via actions.
I finally have a pretty good idea of how to set this up (I think) - but one part I'm missing is that in order to identify the specific app installation as belonging to one of my customers, I need to be able to allow the installing user to supply extra information like e.g. an API-key so that I can associate the specific channel with my specific customer.
Is there any way of doing this with a bot app? I've found examples for creating a configuration page, but they all seem to be associated with tab apps?
I could of cource have the bot ask the user for the information - but maybe there's a "cleaner" way?
Any examples or tutorials would be greatly appreciated as I find it rather hard to get stuff working using Microsoft's own examples etc. :)
Thanks a lot!
When you receive any message from the user, either by typing to your bot, or even installing it into a channel, group chat, or personal context (where you get the conversationUpdate event), you are able to get specific details off of the activity object. If the user sends a message, for instance, then the text property on the activity object will have a value. Incidentally, this is the same activity you will use to get the conversation details you need for the Proactive message.
With regards your question, the activity class also includes a tenantId property, hanging off the conversation property. This is the unique Microsoft 365 Id for the tenant, which would be what I'd suggest to uniquely identify them for your API, or licensing, or similar.
I'm trying to create a subscription to receive the contents of all new messages sent within a private Team, and so far it appears I have to configure a bot / webhook within Teams (and only messages #mentioned to that bot / webhook will be sent to me), or otherwise use the Graphs API (I can't determine whether the same caveat exists with #mentions).
The use case is to allow members of the Team to post messages, and for my listening application to consume the message contents and take an action (turn on a light, etc.. but external to Teams). I don't anticipate needing to write anything back into the Team.
I found this link in another post: https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk/2020/01/how-to-use-the-new-webhooks-for-microsoft-teams-channel-chat-messages/
Has anyone successfully been able to subscribe to all messages within a private team for a similar use case?
Thank you!
Posting the Answer for better knowledge
Copying from #Sridevi comments
To track messages and replies in a channel, you can create a change notification subscription at a channel level. Please follow this documentation.
Is there a way to add a user/member to a list of a hundred or more (existing) slack channels automatically? Perhaps a slack bot, however, I am unable to find any examples of this that don't require listening for new channel creation events.
Every few weeks I need to add a few people to an assortment of channels. Surely the folks at Slack could add a UI screen to allow one to specify the person or persons and then check all the channels that they should be added to.
It's soooooo time consuming to add them now!
I found using the /invite command saves quite a few clicks. I copied the below command and then I could paste it into each channel and press enter -> done.
For open channels its instant. For locked channels you need a click to do final grant.
Still this was much faster than before
/invite #johndoe
Found a No script, no extensions solution:
Type the /who command on a channel you want to add.
Copy the output
Paste it in the channel where you want those people to get invited to
Press Intro/Enter key
Slack will ask all those people "that are not in the channel yet". Press the Invite button you'll get list of members invited.
What we are trying to do
I am working on automation which posts messages to a Slack channel using Incoming Webhooks on a custom Slack App. The messages mentions people.
What works
We can send a message just fine, it has formatted content, and usernames are correctly resolved using the link-names flag.
What isn't working
The whole point of the notification is to inform a dynamic set of people about something they should care about. The set of people we tag varies hugely (think people who contributed to a pull request) and so not all possible recipients are in the channel these automated messages go to.
We assumed that given the usernames are being directly #-mentioned, they would be notified by Slack. However, two of the users we've tested with and #-mentioned confirm they never received a notification they had been tagged.
This is different to "human" behaviour, where if you #-mention someone in Slack, you get a little message reminding you that person isn't in this channel and offers to invite them or let them know.
As far as we can tell, sending the message programmatically is doing the equivalent of "Do nothing" in the picture above. I want to do either of the other two options, preferably "Let them know".
How can I notify people they've been mentioned? I've looked at all the API documentation and nothing discusses notifying users who aren't in the channel that they are mentioned.
This can't be an uncommon issue.... right?
Notes:
We aren't directly calling chat.postMessage, it's just the only documentation on link_names I could find to link to. We are using Incoming Webhooks, which has minimal documentation on the parameters - it seems to be the same as chat.postMessage.
We would prefer not to move off Incoming Webhooks, but we can do a custom integration with the API if we have to.
You need to invite the user to the channel first, using the Python client that's:
client.channels_invite(
channel=channel_id,
user=user_id
)