You should be able to create a reminder sending a message to @slackbot The message should be like: /remind [@someone or #channel] [what] [when] Here’s some examples: /remind @username to do something in 24 hours or: /remind @username to do something at 16:00
The answer provided by Boon is correct. I wanted to leave comment under that answer but apparently I need 50 points to comment so I can only add new answer… After digging into the matter it sounds like the kde-open5 from kde-cli-tools is doing some funky lower-casing on first element of URL (slack://A/B/C becomes slack://a/B/C). … Read more
O.k., for relatively new users of Slack like me, you definitely can get a wider version of a thread, but you can’t expand it directly from the thread in the righthand pane (I don’t think). What you have to do is click on All Threads in the lefthand menu pane. If you had channel content … Read more
Posting an updated answer as this method no longer works since Slack updated their API. Now you have to discover the user’s ID using users.list, or just looking it up in the Slack app on their profile. Then for a given userID, you mention them by setting the text as follows: <@userID>. The link_names argument … Read more
I was trying to do this today also. Either of these options work: Needs to be run the week before you want it to start: /remind me to “ABC” every other Saturday 8pm /remind me to “ABC” Saturday 8pm every 2 weeks Otherwise specify the start date /remind me to “ABC” Jun 19th 8pm every … Read more
With valgrind I obtained this output: Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core Bad permissions for mapped region at address 0xDBF060 at 0xDBF060: ??? (in /usr/lib/slack/slack) by 0x7112071: node::http2::Http2Session::Callbacks::Callbacks(bool) (in /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so) by 0x7112134: ??? (in /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so) by 0x5853CE9: call_init.part.0 (in /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so) by 0x5853DE9: _dl_init (in /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so) by 0x5845149: ??? (in /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so) … Read more
Found a solution for this. In case of a private-channel you can use slack inbuilt /remind command in following way: /remind @channel every weekday at 2pm to start daily standup. Here you can use either @here (to remind only online people) or @channel (remind everyone in the channel irrespective they are online). This was a … Read more
I quickly found out there’s someone already made a helper: slack-cleaner for this. And for me it’s just: slack-cleaner –token=<TOKEN> –message –channel jenkins –user “*” –perform
I found the params I missed : every weekday Answer : /remind @channel “It’s time for daily stand up !” every weekday at 11:45am Edit : Slack Help Center has been updated and now contains tons of reminders examples with parameters !
Slack..version 2.0.0 has jump to date feature. on selecting a particular date, the control goes to that particular date and then we can scroll Click the settings on the channel, and then “Jump to date …”