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We’re excited to announce the release of significant improvements to the Zendesk Slack integration! Starting today, the Slack integration admin experience will progressively be released, with the rollout completing on the 16th of November.
This announcement answers the following questions:
- What's changing, and why?
- What do I need to do?
- What's happening to the existing Slack channel notifications?
What's changing, and why?
This update brings Slack into Admin Center, providing a consistent and familiar experience to some of Zendesk’s other integrations. We’ve also introduced a new trigger action for Slack, enabling you to add Slack to your existing Zendesk triggers.
What's new:
- Connected Slack workspaces are now listed within and can be managed from Admin Center.
- Notifying Slack has been added as an action from within triggers, enabling broader conditionality and the ability to customize the content of a notification message to Slack.
- The integration now threads notifications to a Slack channel for the same ticket, which helps maintain context.
- Slack channel Answer Bot configurations now support selecting which Segments to search.
What do I need to do?
If you already have Slack installed, you will now see the Slack option within Admin Center > Integrations > Integrations.
If you have existing Slack channel notifications configured, you can automatically convert these to triggers via Admin Center. Existing notifications can be maintained or deleted in Slack via /zendesk settings until March 2023. However, new channel configurations cannot be created.
What's happening to the existing Slack channel notifications?
We’ll be deprecating the existing Slack channel notifications on March 31, 2023.
If you’re using the existing Slack channel notifications, you’ll need to migrate these to triggers by March 31, 2023. After that date, these notifications will cease to notify Slack channels.
4 Comments
Will the channel notifications deprecation in March affect Slack webhooks (and triggers that notify those webhooks), or will those still work (and new ones be able to be setup) after March 2023?
Hey Dustin King,
This depreciation will only impact the existing channel notifications which were configured using the /zendesk settings command in Slack.
If you have setup a custom Slack App with an inbound webhook which is notified via a Trigger, that is deemed separate to the Zendesk Slack integration and would not be impacted.
Does this affect the Zendesk slack app that works with Side Conversations?
Hi Heather Rommel,
This update is reflected on the Zendesk Slack App which is used by Side Conversations, however there are no changes to Side Conversations within this update.
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