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The message notification feature, invoked by the /notify command in Slack, allows the user to easily repost a message posted in one Slack channel to others. This is useful when a message is posted in a particular channel and single-channel guests without access to that channel need to receive it too.

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

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• 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! Jack wants everyone to alert everyone on the team, so he posts: @everyone project proposals are today at 8pm! Here is the link: https://example.com into the #general channel. He now wants to message the single-channel-guests who wouldn't see the message posted in #general. 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.

• 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.

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