ER: Investigate automated slack invites that work with free plan #4277
Description
Dependency
- Investigate Feasibility of Using UI Path to Automate Slack Invites #4555 once this possible solution is explored, we can see if this ER can be closed.
Emergent Requirement - Problem
Slack no longer allows API usage for non enterprise accounts. It works with a legacy token, but we lost ours. So no application that uses the API will work (slackin, etc.). However, there are other things we can do, so this ER describes the problem and potential solutions so that we can make some issues.
Issue you discovered this emergent requirement in
Date discovered
2023-03-24
Did you have to do something temporarily
- YES
- NO
Who was involved
@ExperimentsInHonesty and many others
What happens if this is not addressed
Slack has made it so that you can create a link that never expires, but it expires after 400 invites anyway. So I keep generating a new link for every other onboarding (since I have no idea how many people have used it). Sometimes I forget and it doesn't work and I need to regenerate during the onboarding. This is going to become a major problem when we move to an automated onboarding via VRMS and someone has to reset the link manually every month.
Resources
- UI Path Community install
- https://slack.com/help/articles/201330256-Invite-new-members-to-your-workspace
Recommended Action Items
- Make a new issue
- Discuss with team
- Let a Team Lead know
Potential solutions [draft]
I believe using a desktop based automation might be a way around this. UI path is the only one I know about, but they do have a community version and any skills people gained learning how to use it would be directly relevant to a job search (UI path Automation Engineers are in high demand).