Get User's Presence activity

An activity that gets the status of a Slack user.


Get Users Presence activity

Configure the Get Users Presence activity

To configure the Get Users Presence activity, do the procedure in this topic.

Good to Know

How to Start

  1. On the Application Explorer screen, do one of these:
  2. Do one of these:
    • Add an activity:
      1. In the Process Builder, in the Activity Library, open the Slack Slack icon tab.
      2. On the Slack Slack icon tab, drag the Get Users Presence Get Users Presence icon activity onto your process.
    • Change an activity:
      1. In your process, double-click your activity.

General Configuration

Specifies the basic settings for the Get Users Presence activity.

Figure: General Configuration screen

General Configuration screen

Fields

Field Name Definition

Display Name

Function:
Specifies the activity name that shows in your process.
Accepted Values:
One line of text that can have spaces.
Default Value:
None
Accepts Process Data Variables:
No
Example:
This is a common configuration field that is used in many examples. Refer to:
  • Examples - Step-by-step use case examples, information about what types of examples are provided in the AgilePoint NX Product Documentation, and other resources where you can find more examples.

Description

Function:
Specifies an optional text description for your activity.
Accepted Values:
More than one line of text.
Default Value:
None
Accepts Process Data Variables:
No

Get Users Presence Configuration

Specifies information about the user's status to get from Slack, and store in process data variables.

Figure: Get Users Presence Configuration screen

Get Users Presence Configuration screen

Fields

Field Name Definition

Slack

Function:
Specifies the access token that connects to your Slack service.
Accepted Values:
A list of access tokens configured for your environment.
Default Value:
None

Add Token Add Token icon

Opens this Screen:
Access Token for Slack
Function of this Screen:
Configure an access token to connect to Slack.

Use Bot Access Token

Function:
Specifies whether to use a bot access token that connects to your Slack service.
Accepted Values:
  • Selected - Uses a bot access token to connect to your Slack service.
  • Deselected - Uses a Slack application or custom integration access token to connect to your Slack service.
Default Value:
Deselected
Accepts Process Data Variables:
Yes

User Name

Function:
Specifies the name of the user or the process data variable that contains the user ID or user name.
Accepted Values:
A user name from the list.
Default Value:
None
Accepts Process Data Variables:
Yes
Limitations:

Support for user names in this field is available in these releases:

User Presence

Function:
Specifies a process data variable that stores the values active or away as user presence.
Accepted Values:
A process data variable.
Default Value:
None
Accepts Process Data Variables:
Yes

Online Status

Function:
Specifies the process data variable.
Accepted Values:
A process data variable with a Boolean or string value of true or false.

The value true sets the online status is active if the user is connected to Slack.

Default Value:
None
Accepts Process Data Variables:
Yes

Auto Away

Function:
Specifies the process data variable. the user presence as auto away.
Accepted Values:
A process data variable with a Boolean or string value of true or false

The value true marks a user as away if Slack server does not find one action from the user within 30 minutes.

Default Value:
None
Accepts Process Data Variables:
Yes
Limitations:

Some information about third-party integrations is outside the scope of the AgilePoint NX Product Documentation, and it is the responsibility of the vendors who create and maintain these technologies to provide this information. This includes specific business uses cases and examples; explanations for third-party concepts; details about the data models and input and output data formats for third-party technologies; and various types of IDs, URL patterns, connection string formats, and other technical information that is specific to the third-party technologies. For more information, refer to Where Can I Find Information and Examples for Third-Party Integrations?

Manual Away

Function:
Specifies a process data variable that stores the values true or false to manually mark a user as away or active.
Accepted Values:
A process data variable with a Boolean or string value of true or false

The value true manually marks a user as away.

Default Value:
None
Accepts Process Data Variables:
Yes
Limitations:

Some information about third-party integrations is outside the scope of the AgilePoint NX Product Documentation, and it is the responsibility of the vendors who create and maintain these technologies to provide this information. This includes specific business uses cases and examples; explanations for third-party concepts; details about the data models and input and output data formats for third-party technologies; and various types of IDs, URL patterns, connection string formats, and other technical information that is specific to the third-party technologies. For more information, refer to Where Can I Find Information and Examples for Third-Party Integrations?