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Slack is a proprietary cloud-based team collaboration tool.

Slack is a messaging program designed specifically for the workplace. Developed by American software company Slack Technologies and now owned by Salesforce, Slack offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging.

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Slack Markdown for Links Are Not Resolving

What am I doing wrong? None of the example Markdown links work so far in my Slack app. I pasted in the example below in a chat in my Slack app. I got this example from slack markdown syntax and it still treats it as literal text in the Slack…
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Slack URL to open a channel from browser

This iTunes URL will open The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in your iTunes: itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy/id315596797 This Spotify URL will open ALL by the Descendents in…
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What is the simplest way to find a slack team ID and a channel ID?

We are trying to setup deep linking into slack, as described here: https://api.slack.com/docs/deep-linking The document states that to open a specific team, the following URL should be used: slack://open?team={TEAM_ID} Open Slack and switch teams…
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How to delete slackbot reminder that was created by other person?

There is slack private channel with slackbot reminder. It was created by person doesn't work at our company anymore. How can i delete this noisy slackbot reminder??
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How do I jump to a specific date in history or the oldest message in a Slack channel in the desktop app?

My specific question is how to do this in the Slack desktop app, but I wouldn't mind settling for a way to do this via a web browser, and then worst case, a web api. I often want to jump to the beginning of a channel and just read, but it takes…
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Set a single reminder on all week days

Thanks to Slack Help center, I'm able to set a reminder on specific days but not on all week days. My question is: How to set a single reminder on all week day ? Something like this: /remind @channel "It's time for daily stand up !" Monday Tuesday…
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Slack clean all messages (~8K) in a channel

We currently have a Slack channel with ~8K messages all comes from Jenkins integration. Is there any programmatic way to delete all messages from that channel? The web interface can only delete 100 messages at a time.
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How to set slack reminder for private channel

I am able to set slack reminder using /remind #public-channel but for private channel there is no option.
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How do I get slack to remind me every fortnight from next Saturday

Slack has the /remind command that allows you to set a reminder in a channel. I am trying to have slack remind me every fortnight starting from next Saturday at 8pm to jump on a call. It seems like an extension of the help documentation. I…
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Signing into slack-desktop not working on 4.23.0 64-bit (Ubuntu)

In the app, going File > Workspace > Sign in to new workspace launches a browser window. After selecting the workspace in browser, it launches back a deep link back to slack but it doesn't work. Nothing happens on the slack-desktop. When inspecting…
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Why does Slack return a Segmentation fault after Fedora 29 upgrade?

I have upgraded Fedora from 28 to the latest 29 and Slack doesn't work anymore. It returns a Segmentation fault (core dumped). Edit: The issue has been fixed on Slack 3.3.4
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How to mention user in slack.client

This might be a simple question, but I can not get it work. I am using Slack Python Api to mention a user in a channel, and I am referring to the document here, https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage, and my code is simple as, from…
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How does one make Slack threads less narrow?

Threads would be a very nice feature of Slack, except that they are way too narrow and I can't find any way to configure their width. Does anyone know how to expand a thread to make it take up all the screen real estate (within Slack)? Zooming in…
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Schedule a message in Slack

I need to send a message in slack at a time set in advance. Is there a way to do it through the Slack API or do I need to have a script running and checking if it's time to send the message and then send it?
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Is it possible to post files to Slack using the incoming Webhook?

I am trying out the Slack's API using the incoming webhook feature, posting messages works flawlessly, but it doesn't seem to allow any file attachments. Looking through I understand I have to use a completely different OAuth based API, but creating…
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