Basically, "Standup meetings for Slack"
Slack Manager allows teams to monitor employees on a daily basis. You can start a meeting by inviting your bot to your current channel and just write "start meeting".
Advantages of Slack Manager from other services:
- Free and easy to use.
- Configurable mail settings.
- Configurable questions.
- First make a bot integration inside of your Slack channel. Go here:
https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot
- Enter a name for your bot. Make it something fun and friendly, but avoid a single task specific name. Bots can do lots! Let's not pigeonhole them.
- When you click "Add Bot Integration", you are taken to a page where you can add additional details about your bot, like an avatar, as well as customize its name & description.
Copy the API token that Slack gives you. You'll need it in the next step.
Clone the repository by:
git clone https://github.com/anonrig/slack-manager
Install from NPM
npm install slack-manager --save
Create your settings file.
touch config/production.json
Mailer service uses nodemailer's transport methods. Therefore, for better understanding please read nodemailer's available transports .
For example for Gmail settings: change your settings file by:
{
"token": "YOUR SLACK TOKEN HERE",
"mailer": {
"service": "Gmail",
"email": "email@address.com",
"pass": "mySuperFancyPassword"
}
}
npm install
npm start
-
start meeting
Starts meeting. To be able to start meeting with this command your bot should be invited to the channel.
-
skip
Skips the current user's turn. Asks/Returns to the skipped users again at the end of the meeting. Can be skipped more than once.
-
dismiss
Dismisses the current user, in other words kicks the current user out of the meeting. Useful in case of an absence.
-
quit
Ends the meeting. Meeting can be restarted by typing
start meeting
again.
Slack-Manager uses a number of open source projects to work properly:
- Botkit - Botkit - Building Blocks for Building Bots
- Node-mailer - Send e-mails with Node.JS – easy as cake! E-mail made in Estonia.
- Lodash - A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.
- Async - Async utilities for node and the browser.
- Nconf - Hierarchical node.js configuration with files, environment variables, command-line arguments, and atomic object merging.
Want to contribute? Great! Feel free to submit bugs, and open pull requests.
MIT