Enable slack notifications dark mode feature

Overview

Slack notifications are a dark mode feature in Comala Document Management 6.11.3

To allow workflows in a Confluence instance to send Slack notifications to a channel in a Slack workspace

• the Comala slack macro dark mode feature must be enabled by a global administrator
• the Slack workspace must have an app created with a webhook to allow a channel to be exposed for the posting of notifications from Comala Document Management
• a workflow trigger is created that uses the Comala slack macro with the Slack app webhook id added to send a notification to a Slack workspace channel

Enable Comala slack macro dark feature

• access dark mode feature actions by navigating to your instance dark features in global administration  e.g.  http://<CONFLUENCE>/admin/darkfeatures.action
  
  
  
  
• add comalatech.workflows.slack.macro.enabled to the Enable dark feature dialogue box
  
  
• choose Submit
  

The Comala slack macro dark feature is added as enabled Site Dark Feature.

Once enabled, to post a notification to a Slack channel from a workflow in the instance you must then

• set up a Slack workspace channel creating a Slack app and adding a webhook feature
• add a workflow trigger that includes the slack-channel-message macro

See Also

External Links

• Slack API - sending messages using incoming webhooks
• Create a Slack app in a workspace

Content Integrations

Workflow Authoring Guide

• {slack-channel-message} macro
• {trigger} macro