Link Slack

• Navigation – User
• User: How to connect to Slack
• How to change or disconnect the current channel
• Navigation – Administrator
• Administrator: How to configure notifications

As an administrator or as a user with the privilege Manage Custom Connections, you can specify for which activities a notification is sent via Slack.

You can either begin the process when users create their profiles or if you are already signed up you can navigate to the settings. 

Navigation – User

User menu > Profile > Preferences > Slack

User: How to connect to Slack

1. Click on Connect under the heading Slack.
2. You will be then prompted to a new window titled Slack Sign In. It will instruct the user to finish the authorization on the new page, which should have opened after clicking Connect.*
   *If the page didn’t open, it was blocked by a pop-up blocker. Either adjust your browser’s pop-up settings or allow the page to open. The new page will be Slack’s authorization confirmation to share files from Slack to Canto.
3. Sign in using your Slack credentials and authorize the access for Canto.
4. Close the pop-up window and click on Continue within the Authorized Operations dialogue.
5. Select the channel you would like to be used for the notifications and press Ok.

From now on, every time you perform an activity that has been selected by the administrator, a notification is sent to the selected Slack channel. 

How to change or disconnect the current channel

If you would like to Change Channel, Disconnect or simply turn the function off temporarily, you can come back to User Menu > Profile > Preferences > Slack.

Navigation – Administrator

User menu > Settings > Links & Connections > External Connections

Administrator: How to configure notifications

To specify for which activities notifications are sent in Slack:

1. Select the Slack icon.
2. Click Connect to begin. 
3. You will then be prompted to a new window titled Slack Sign In. It will instruct the user to finish the authorization on the new page, which should have opened after clicking Connect.*
   *If the page didn’t open, it was blocked by a pop-up blocker. Either adjust your browser’s pop-up settings or allow the page to open. The new page will be Slack’s authorization confirmation to share files from Slack to Canto. 
4. When you connect Canto with your Slack account, you can receive notifications for:
   • Comment made
   • Album added or updated
   • File added or updated
   • File Status changed
   • Files Shared
   • Portal updates
5. Click on Save to confirm.