Automation with slack

[Marco Antonio]

Hi.

I'd like to know, how can I find the right Slack's URL to generate alerts in a specific channel in Slack?

[Daniel Eads · Accepted solution]

Hey @Marco Antonio !

When creating a webhook URL for Automation to use, it will prompt you to choose a default channel for the webhook to send messages into. This is part of the steps for connecting Jira Automation with Slack . Once you've got that URL though, you can keep using the same URL and simply change the "Channel or user" field at the bottom of your Send Slack message action.

I recorded this video explanation for another question recently - in the video I use the override to send a Direct Message, but you could just as easily put a different #channel-name in the field.

Cheers,
Daniel | Atlassian Support

[OJ Johnson]

So is there anyway to get to channel with the new Jira app in Slack?

[Daniel Eads]

Hi @OJ Johnson , I'm not fully sure I understand your question.

One common ask is for Jira issues to have dedicated channels in Slack, captured as a public feature request on API-65. However, this does not have any relation or dependency on Jira Automation.

Is that what you were thinking about, or was it something else?

Thanks,
Daniel

[OJ Johnson]

I was able to do it through Github from Jira and end up in Slack. Is the process a little different directly from Jira to Slack? 

[OJ Johnson]

Or am I thinking of this wrong? the goal is to go from Jira to Slack and Slack to Jira in a specific channel. I can connect now, but not in a specific channel

thanks