Slack

Slack is a Business Instant Messaging Software. Slack enables real-time messaging, archiving and search tool for modern teams.

Pricing Pricing is based on plan and features.

Integration Information

Data Collected

• Members: email, name, role (primary owner, owner, admin, member, restricted), last seen

Connection details

• Status: General Availability
• Type: api
• Permissions required:
  * Organisation admin account must authenticate Slack and it must provide admin team:read users:read and users:read.email API permissions.

Instructions

In this document, we will provide instructions for configuring Slack to enable LeanIX SMP to retrieve users data.

Configure Slack integration in LeanIX SMP

1. Log into LeanIX SMP and navigate to Slack
2. Click on Authorize button
3. Select the workspace you would like to track in LeanIX SMP shown in the dropdown.
4. Review permissions and click Allow
5. Click Integrate

Frequently asked questions

Why are different permissions needed?

• Permission team:read (view the name, email domain, and icon for workspaces your slack app is connected to) is used to provide the team name as account ID.
• Permission users:read (view people in a workspace), users:read.email (view email addresses of people in a workspace) is used to get members in the workspace, along with their emails.
• Permission admin (administer a workspace) is used to access team logs, from which we get the last seen information.