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In order to connect EmpowerID to Slack, the following prerequisites need to be met:

  1. Your organization must have either a Slack Plus or Slack Enterprise Grid account.

  2. You must register EmpowerID as an application in Slack.

  3. You must supply the credentials for the Slack administrator account. EmpowerID uses this account as a connection proxy to manage Slack on your behalf.

Step 1 – Register EmpowerID as an application in Slack

  1. Log in to Slack and navigate to https://api.slack.com/apps .

  2. Click Create New App.

  3. Name the app and select the workspace where you want to create the app.

  4. Click Create App.

  5. Expand Add features and functionality and click Permissions.

  6. Scroll to Scopes.

  7. Under User Token Scopes, add the admin scope.

  8. Under OAuth Tokens & Redirect URLs, click Install App to Workspace.

  9. In the <App Name> is requesting permission dialog that appears, click Allow.

  10. Copy the OAuth Access Token generated for the app.

  11. Save the token. The EmpowerID Slack connector uses it to authenticate to Slack on your behalf.

Step 2 – Create a Slack account store in EmpowerID

  1. On the navbar, expand Admin > Applications and Directories and select Account Stores and Systems.

  2. On the Account Stores page, select the Actions tab and click Create Account Store.

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  2. Under System Types, search for Slack.

  3. Click Slack to select the type and then click Submit.

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  4. On the Slack Settings page that appears, enter the following information:

    • Name – Enter a name for the account store

    • Service Token – Enter the token created for the application.

  5. Click Submit.

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EmpowerID creates the account store and the associated resource system. The next step is to configure the attribute flow between the account store and EmpowerID.

Step 3 – Configure Attribute Flow

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Now that the attribute flow has been set, the next steps include configuring the account store and enabling EmpowerID to inventory it.

Step 4 – Configure account store settings

  1. On the Account Store and Resource System page, click the Account Store tab and then click the pencil icon to put the account store in edit mode. This opens the edit page for the account store. This page allows you to specify the account proxy used to connect EmpowerID to your Slack account as well as how you want EmpowerID to handle the user information it discovers in Slack during inventory. Settings that can be edited are described in the below table.

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  2. Edit the account store as needed and then click Save to save your changes.

Next, enable the Account Inbox permanent workflow to allow the Account Inbox to provision or join the user accounts in Box to EmpowerID Persons as demonstrated below.

Tip

EmpowerID recommends using the Account Inbox for provisioning and joining.

Step 5 – Enable the Account Store Permanent Workflow

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Step 6 – Monitor Inventory

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See Also

Slack Connector

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