Slack Connector Data Sheet

Owned by Mateusz Bednarz (Deactivated)
Last updated: Feb 11, 2021 by Michał Gawlas

Release Notes

Slack Connector Release Notes

Released Versions

  • SDK 1.5 (Locator 2.9)
  • SDK 1.6 (Locator 2.10)
  • SDK 1.6 (Locator 2.11)

Limitations

None.

Prerequisites

  • A license for the Slack Connector
  • Slack Instance
  • An index user with read access to Users, Channels and Messages data types
  • An Client Id, Client Secret and Redirect Url. There is a need to create new application https://api.slack.com/apps
  • Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2019 (x86 version)

Supported Data Types

The connector supports indexing the following data types:

  • Users
  • Channels
  • Messages
  • PrivateChannels
  • PrivateChannelMessages

Crawl Methods

Full Crawl: The Slack Connector supports scheduling periodic full scans of the source system.

Incremental Crawl: The Slack Connector supports ChangeSet functionality for Messages and PrivateChannelMessages data types.

DocumentHandler

Not required.

Other information

The Slack Connector extracts the data by using the Slack API .

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