Timeliner

Hi.

Post-mortems are great! One of the more tedious parts is getting together the timeline. This small project adds a Slack message action to quickly add things to a time-ordered list to make it easier to get together what happened when.

Demonstration

Ask Erik for the movie

Developing

• Run redis locally
• Try npm install. I haven't tested it yet... TBD
• Use ngrok http 3000 and copy your ngrok url.
• Make a new app in Slack, and go to these pages for the app
• Features / Interactivity & Shortcuts page
  • Under Interactivity put your ngrok url plus /slack/events. I.e.: https://1701ee7a.ngrok.io/slack/events
  • Create New Shortcut having a callback of message_to_timeline (name it whatever you'd like, this will show up in slack's message context menu)
• Features / OAuth & Permissions page:
  • copy Bot User OAuth Access Token - this will be SLACK_BOT_TOKEN
  • needed Scopes:
    1. commands (this may be there already)
    2. user.profile:read (needed to get user names)
• Settings / Install App into your workspace
• Copy SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET and SLACK_BOT_TOKEN from your app page
• npx nodemon app.js

References

• Etsy Facilitation Guide
• Code as Craft post