Slack integration

[robbiemccorkell]

It would be cool to pull slack profile pictures for the pins, and link directly to a DM chat on profile names.

Since we don't have SSO on our slack instance this would require making a separate slack app integration, but since we have everybody's usernames might not be that hard.

[charypar]

Sounds great! Any pointers to what might be involved in setting this up?

We do use google accounts to sign-in to Slack, it may be possible to reuse the authentication context 🤔

[samwhite]

We don't have access to the SCIM API as it's only available on Plus/Enterprise plans -- however the regular users.list API combined by searching via email address could do it? https://api.slack.com/methods/users.list

[charypar]

The spreadsheet has slack handles, so finding the user should be easy. The other question is whether there’s a simple way to initiate a conversation from outside, like a slackto: link

[samwhite]

Ah, that's a more direct way to filter then!

Deep linking to a DM is easy: slack://user?team={TEAM_ID}&id={USER_ID}

(TEAM_ID we can fetch, it'll be constant for the RB slack)

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[charypar]

Tried the direct links a bunch and couldn't get it to work with just links. Seems like Slack app would be the only way.