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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
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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
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Migrating existing workspaces to your organization

At this point in the chapter, you should now have a deep understanding of how to set up a Slack workspace and invite members with different permissions attached to their accounts. However, what if you have already built a workspace and now need to migrate that information over to your new (and improved) workspace? Slack's search feature means that your messages never get lost and your old workspaces shouldn't either.

Slack's import and export tools make this merge possible, allowing you to move members, messages, and channel data from one workspace to the next. Slack also offers two export options for you to choose from:

  • A Standard export for those on the Free, Standard, or Plus plan
  • A Corporate export for those on the Plus plan who apply for the option

A Standard export will move public channels (such as messages and members), links to files, and member profile information. A Corporate export...