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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
Book Image

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By: Moshe Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Slack Overview
7
Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
12
Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Inviting and tracking team members

Getting your workspace primed for success means that you are ready to invite your team to the platform and have them interacting daily. Workspace primary owners and admins can always invite team members, but the default setup for a workspace gives everyone permission to invite members. Owners and admins can restrict that feature and take responsibility for inviting members themselves.

Other workspace members can request that individuals be invited to the Slack workspace, which sends a notification directly to the owners and admins for their approval.

There are three easy options that you can use to invite your team members:

  • Sending an email invitation provides steps to accept the invite and get your team member set up on the account.
  • Allowing for email signup means that individuals with an approved domain in their email address can create accounts and join automatically.
  • Sharing an invite link with an expiration date that...