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Note that this command is restricted to users in Slack with a role of administrator or higher. Using /notify without the proper role will result in a “User is not admin” error message.

Usage

Using the /notify command opens a dialog box that where you can configure the notification, as seen below:

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Message Link: Paste the URL of the message that you would like to repost here. You can get this URL by hovering over the message, clicking the “More actions” button, and then clicking “Copy link” from the dropdown.

Additional Channels: Select the channels that you would like to broadcast this message to. Selecting the “default” option will broadcast the message to the following channels: #airframe, #business, #electrical, #general, #liquid_engine, #mechanical, #payload, #propulsion, #recovery, #software

Alert Type: Select how the messages will alert the users in the channels that it is reposted to:

• Alert single channel: This will not repost the message to all the selected channels. Instead, it will direct message all single-channel guests that are in these channels with the specified message. The least spammy of the options, as it does not repost your message in multiple channels

• Alert: This will repost the message to all the selected channels with an @channel prepended so that all users in the channels are notified. The most disruptive option as it pings all users in the selected channels, pinging them multiple times if they are in more than one of them. Use with care.

• Copy: This will repost the message to all the selected channels.

Examples

• Today is the first meeting of project proposals! Shirley Jack wants everyone to alert everyone on the team, so she he posts: @everyone project proposals are today at 8pm! Here is the link: https://example.com into the #general channel. She's He now wants to message the single-channel-guests who wouldn’t wouldn't see the message posted in #general. First she He copies the link to the message, runs /notify, pastes the link in, selects the default channels, and sets the alert type to alert-single-channel, and .

• Roman and Zach are running a rec-elec meeting. Roman sends a message in #recovery saying: @channel rec-elec meeting is right now!. To copy it and alert #electrical, Roman copies the link to the message, runs /notify, fills in the link, selects #electrical and sets the alert-type to alert or copy.