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Slack Connector

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Version 4

 

Intro

Note: The Slack Connector is currently still in development and is not yet available for use.

Slack is a proprietary business communication platform. Slack offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. Its workspaces allow you to organize communications by channels for group discussions and allows for private messages to share information, files, and more all in one place. Slack is the collaboration hub that brings the right people, information, and tools together to get work done. Use Domo’s Slack Connector to fetch the data about your remote teams’ interactions to increase productivity, irrespective of the physical locations. To learn more about the Slack API, visit https://api.slack.com/apis.

You connect to your Slack account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the Slack connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Prerequisites

To connect to your Slack account and create a DataSet, you must have the following:

  • Your Workspace's Slack URL

  • Your Email address and password for your Slack Workspace URL

Connecting to Your Slack Account

This section enumerates the options in the Credentials and Details panes in the Slack Connector page. The components of the other panes in this page, Scheduling and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in greater length in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Credentials Pane

The Domo Slack connector uses OAuth to connect, so there is no need to enter credentials within Domo. Click Connect (or select Add Account if you have existing Slack accounts in Domo) to open the Slack OAuth screen where you can enter your Slack credentials. Once you have entered valid Slack credentials, you can use the same account any time you go to create a new Slack DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Managing User Accounts for Connectors.

Note: If you are already logged into Slack when you connect in Domo, you are authenticated automatically when you click Add account. If you want to connect to an account that is different from the one you are logged into, you must first log out of the current Slack account.

Details Pane

This pane contains a primary Reports menu, along with various other menus which may or may not appear depending on the report type you select.

Menu

Description

Report

Select the Slack report you want to run. The following reports are available:

Conversation Info Returns information about a conversation.
Conversation Members Returns a list of members of a conversation.
Conversations Returns a list of conversation channels in a Slack team.
Reactions Returns reactions made by a user.
Team Info Returns information about the current team.
Team Profile Returns a team's profile.
User Conversations Returns conversations the calling user may access.
User Groups Returns a list of all user groups for a team.
User Info Returns information about a user.
User Presence Returns user presence information.
User Profile Returns a user's profile information.
Users Returns all users in a Slack team.
Conversation Channels Select the conversation channel to report on
Additional Data Select the sub-list to flatten. The selected value gets flattened and the rest are ignored. All values are ignored if you select 'None'.
Users  Select the user to report on.

Other Panes 

For information about the remaining sections of the connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.