Continuing the discussion from The Official Discourse Slack Plugin:
Incoming Webhook
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Go to the Incoming Webhooks configuration page for your Slack instance. Pick a channel, and click the big green “Add incoming webhook Integration” button. (You only need to do this once, even if you have multiple Discourse instances.)
NOTE: The “Post to Channel” setting above is not honored, and you will need to go to<your-discourse-url>/admin/plugins/slackonce the plugin is enabled and configure the Channel you would like Discourse to post to. -
Scroll down to Integration Settings and copy the “Webhook URL”.
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Go to your Discourse settings page, found at
<your-discourse-url>/admin/site_settings/category/plugins. In the slack outbound webhook url field, paste the webhook URL you copied from Slack. -
Select the Enable checkbox, and save all the changed settings. That’s it! You’re done!
Slash Commands (Optional)
By default, every new post on your Discourse will now create a Slack message in the channel you specified in step one. To change your notification defaults, go to
/admin/plugins/slackon your Discourse.
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Go to
https://<your-team>.slack.com/apps/new/A0F82E8CA-slash-commandsto create a new outgoing command. -
Enter the name of the command (eg
/discourse) and click “Add Slash Command Integration”: -
In the “URL” field, enter the URL that the slash command will post to:
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Copy your API token from the “Token” field:
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Go to your Discourse settings page, found at
<your-discourse-url>/admin/site_settings/category/plugins. In the left-hand menu, scroll down and click “Plugins”. -
In the “slack incoming webhook token” field, paste your API token:
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In Slack, go to the channel you want to post notifications to, and enter the slash command you set up in step 2.
The bot will show you the options for subscribing to notifications:
