{"id":39793,"date":"2019-10-16T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T09:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=2a6088d9650d0163d59470164c108f49"},"modified":"2019-10-16T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T09:44:36","slug":"slack-launches-workflow-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/slack-launches-workflow-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Slack launches Workflow Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span>
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Slack has introduced Workflow Builder, a tool to create a customisable channel within a channel.<\/p>\n

This, the company says, will remove productivity “roadblocks” by streamlining projects within Slack.<\/p>\n

It’s been a busy year for the communications platform, with new productivity features launched every other month, such as tighter security controls<\/a> and user-friendly upgrades<\/a> such as dark mode.<\/p>\n

Here, the company is going after workflow productivity with a feature that enables users to get information from their team sent straight to them, instead of creating an extra, temporary channel.<\/p>\n

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“Raise your hand if you rely on other people and teams to get work done,” Slack rhetorically asked in its blog<\/a>. “By our count, there’s a 70% chance you do. Coordinating projects with others requires getting the right information to the right people in real-time. Yet steps like making requests, asking for updates, and providing context to teammates are hardly instantaneous \u2013 and often halt progress altogether.”<\/p>\n

Slack’s answer to this is Workflow Builder, a “visual tool” for users to automate routine functions with custom workflows \u2013 essentially a channel within a channel to collect specific requests for your projects.<\/p>\n

Slack uses a new starter as an example, where rather than tracking down the relevant people, whom you might not know yet, or trying to find specific documents relating to a project they’re now on, Workflow Builder provides a quick and accessible repository where the newbie can get up to speed.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, the organisation can set up a “welcome workflow” that allows the new person to fill out a form letting the rest of the team know about them, which is one way to cut out awkward getting to know you chit-chat.<\/p>\n

These custom forms are also a way of working out what your channel’s needs are. For example, finding out everyone’s thoughts on team meetings: Each member can fill in the form and let each other know about their availability and so on.<\/p>\n

This is also useful for incident reports, recording issues with your company’s website for instance, where you let the team know something’s wrong and you create a shareable file of the issue for the IT department.<\/p>\n

This is also a very quick feature, requiring just a minute and a reasonable amount of clicks (it took us only five clicks to create our own workflow). <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n

16 Oct, 2019 <\/p>\n

Slack has introduced Workflow Builder, a tool to create a customisable channel within a channel.
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