Slack Connector
- Phillip Hanegan
EmpowerID Slack connector supports the following Slack versions:
Slack Plus
Slack Enterprise Gold
EmpowerID Slack connector integrates with the Slack SCIM API to allow organizations to bring the user and group data in their Slack system to EmpowerID, where it can be managed and synchronized with data in any connected back-end user directories. Once connected, you can manage this data from EmpowerID in the following ways:
Account Management
Inventory Slack user accounts as EmpowerID accounts
Create Slack user accounts – Calls HTTP POST /Users containing new user information. Requires username and email. You may provide an email address in the userName field, but it will be automatically converted to a Slack-appropriate username.
Update Slack user accounts – Calls HTTP PATCH /Users/{id} with new user information in JSON format.
Enable Slack user accounts – Calls HTTP PATCH /Users/{id} sending JSON with the active attribute set to True
Disable Slack user accounts – Calls HTTP DELETE /Users/{id}, which will set the active attribute of the user to False
Reset and change Slack passwords – Calls HTTP PATCH /Users/{id} sending JSON with a password attribute set to the new password
Group Management
Inventory Slack groups as EmpowerID groups
Inventory Slack group memberships as EmpowerID group accounts
Add members to Slack groups – Calls HTTP PATCH /Groups/{id} sending JSON with a complex attribute Members a list of members with value attribute set to user id.
Remove members from Slack groups – Calls HTTP PATCH /Groups/{id} sending JSON with a complex attribute Members A list of members with value attribute set to user id and operation attribute set to “delete”.
User Account Attribute Flow
Users in Slack are inventoried as accounts in EmpowerID. The below table shows the attribute mappings of Slack user attributes to EmpowerID Person attributes.
Slack Attribute | Slack Table | Corresponding EmpowerID Attribute | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Id | User | SystemIdentifier | Unique System Identifier of the user |
UserName | User | LogonName | User name of the user |
familyName | User | LastName | First name of the user |
givenName | User | FirstName | Last name of the user |
honorificPrefix | User | PersonalTitle | The honorific prefix(es) of the User |
User | PrimaryEmail | Primary Email of the user | |
Primary Photo URL | User | PhotoURL | A fully qualified URL to a page representing the User's online profile |
StreetAddress | User | StreetAddress | Street of the user |
Locality | User | City | City of the user |
Region | User | State | State of the user |
PostalCode | User | PostalCode | Postal Code of the user |
Country | User | Country | Country of the user |
phoneNumber | User | Telephone | Phone number of the user |
DisplayName | User | DisplayName | Name displayed to other end-users |
Active | User | Disabled | Status of the user |
Profile URL | User | URLPersonal | A fully qualified URL to a page representing the User's online profile |
userType | User | EmployeeType | Organization to user relationship |
Title | User | CustomAttribute3 | The user’s title |
Locale | User | CustomAttribute4 | Indicates the User's Date, time format |
PreferredLanguage | User | PreferredLanguage | Indicates the User's preferred written or spoken language |
Time Zone | User | CustomAttribute2 | The User's time zone |
Role | User | Title | Role name of the user |
EmployeeNumber | User | PositionID | Employee ID of User |
CostCenter | User | CostCenter | Cost Center of the User |
Organization | User | Company | Company name of the user |
Division | User | Division | Division name of the user |
Department | User | Department | Department name of the user |
ManagerID | User | ManagerPersonID | Unique System Identifier of the users Manager |
Group Attribute Flow
Groups in Slack are inventoried as Groups in EmpowerID. The below table shows the attribute mapping of Slack Group attributes to EmpowerID Group attributes.
Slack Attribute | Slack Table | Corresponding EmpowerID Attribute | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
displayName | Group | Name | Name of the group. |
Id | Group | SystemIdentifier | Unique Identifier of the group. |
Inventory
Slack inventory runs on a scheduled basis to get users, groups and group memberships from Slack system.