Slack Integration for HPI

[gsteimer]

We'd have to do some research to see if it would be feasible, but it would be really cool to have Slack integration with HPI. Some ideas:

• Send notification action could have a configuration to either send an email like it does now, or a slack notification to the user(s) being notified
• Inbox / Workflow - In addition to emails, also send the user a slack notification for items like task received, workflow complete, etc. I think we'd want both here, not either or.
• Some sort of document integration? I'm struggling to see what this would be that isn't already possible with just copying an HPI URL to a document into a Slack message? I don't think we should actually send document content through Slack servers - clients won't like that from a security perspective.
• Any other ideas?

[dgrumieaux]

Could have direct integration like "collaboration mode" provides OA... if you could create a temporary channel or something like that from a document and invite collaborators. Maybe this idea would be suited to a drop-in replacement of collaboration mode in OA?

[dgrumieaux]

Also, if you could use slackbot to remind yourself of a document in 4 hours or in 2 days or whatever, that could also be very handy.

[gsteimer]

@dgrumieaux - great ideas! I like the slackbot reminder idea because I think we could spin it both ways. Ex:

1. From HPI - tell Slack to remind me (or a team member) to look at Doc 1234 tomorrow at 9am.
2. From Slack - remind me to look at Doc 1234 tomorrow at 9am. Something like: /ecmremind me to review Doc-1234 tomorrow at 9am

In either case, slackbot pops up the next day at 9am with a link to the doc in HPI and a message.

[dgrumieaux]

Another approach is to create an HPI slackbot. The bot could be used to programmatically deliver notifications as a simple use case. https://v2.asknestor.me/ref/nestor-v1 would be a good place to start.