Invite new users to specific channel automatically

[jackiehluo]

Is there a way to specify a specific channel for new users who are invited through this app? Not as single-channel guests—they can have access to any channel, but I want to make sure that they're a part of a specific one from the start.

[outsideris]

I think it is not a part in this project. You can set default channels for new member in Slack settings.

[jackiehluo]

Hey! Fair enough, but that's not exactly what I meant. I can't use the default channels feature in Slack because I want to be able to invite different groups of people to different channels upon joining (for instance, new members of a sales team join all of the sales channels by getting their invite at slack.company.com/sales).

[outsideris]

In fact, invitation API is not an official API that slack support. I think it is possible to set channels to new users will be join as when I test the APIs. It is an interesting feature request.
Do you want to launch apps for groups separately, or give users to select groups that they want, in UI. I think latter is more hard to make for general purposes.

[julianschiavo]

Former maybe?

[gabedeko]

Hello,

Has there been any update or progress on this feature? I would like to invite users to a specific channel as a guest.

Thanks.

[jandreaucodes]

I just forked this to do precisely that.

In /routes, edit index.js and below:
token: config.slacktoken,
add:
ultra_restricted: true, channels: config.channel

Then in your config.js, add:
channel: 'CHANNEL ID HERE'|| 'What channel should the user auto join?', (Note, you must use channel ID, not channel name)

(Put that anywhere in config.js between the opening and closing curly braces.

This will allow you to only allow registered users to be locked to the channel you specify. If you need to use more than one channel, use restricted instead of ultra_restricted and input multiple channels separated by comma.

You can't invite different people via different URLs this way, though. You'd have to build in more routes to accomplish that, which is a bit more complex than a comment on the issue would allow.

[Bogidon]

^
• note, channel id not name
• and if you're deploying to aws, change sam-template.json and deploy.sh too