Slack Technologies, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Andrew Fong

Salman Suhail

Prajna Shetty

Michael Deng

Pranay Agarwal

Hye Jung Choi

Bruce Sullivan

Tolga Akin

Stephen Sowole

Patricia Ang

Diogenes Brito

Michael Hahn

Mark Christian

Michael Brevoort

Andrew Locascio

Samuel Attard

Felix Rieseberg

Alfred Xing

Albert Xing

Chaitanya Ravula

Scott Lee Goodfriend

Sohom Paul

Manju Vijayakumar

Steven Walling

Ed Donghyun Kim

In association with a communication platform, one or more users can create, share, edit, and/or comment on a document. An indicator can be provided to one user that another user is presently interacting with the document. For example, the indicator can indicate information about a respective user, such as a permission level, virtual-space membership, and the manner in which the user is interacting with the document. In addition, the indicator may provide options to change or update information associated with a respective user, such as by inviting the user to join a virtual space of the communication platform and associated with the document or by changing permissions of the user with respect to the document.

Indicating user interactions associated with a document

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for collaboration in a group-based communication system via a third-party integration. A new collaboration instance controller is initialized which allows the third-party integration to request and receive group-based communication system objects from the group-based communication system.

Collaboration software development kit

Media, methods, and systems are disclosed for managing permissions for a collaborative document within a group-based communication system. A collaborative document may be created within a group-based communication system. When the collaborative document is created, permissions may be automatically assigned based on the context of collaborative document creation, such as which virtual space the collaborative document creation corresponds to. After creation, the collaborative document may be shared and permissions may be automatically updated based on the sharing context. Users without appropriate permissions will be prevented from accessing the document.

Managing permissions for collaborative shared documents

A system, method, and computer-readable media for dividing the content of a user interface for a group-based communication system among a plurality of windows. A parent window may comprise a plurality of panes. A child window may be created from the parent window by an actuation on a pane of the plurality of panes presented by the user interface. Child windows and the parent window may share computer memory. A plurality of windows may be created to divide the content of the user interface. Libraries designed for single window applications may be modified to work with a plurality of windows. The group-based communication system may be implemented via various web technologies.

Multiple windows for a group-based communication system

Techniques for enabling an efficient means of collaborating via a collaborative document associated with a communication platform are described herein. In some examples, the collaborative document can be created within and managed by the communication platform. In at least one example, a collaborative document can support editable text and/or objects that can be ordered, added, deleted, modified and/or the like, such as by members thereof. Additionally, the collaborative document can include messaging functionalities. In at least one example, the collaborative document can include or be associated with a document identifier configured to enable functionalities associated with the type of virtual space corresponding to the virtual space identifier. That is, the collaborative document can leverage existing paradigms associated with the communication platform to enable the functionalities. In at least one example, the functionalities can enable the members to collaborate efficiently and effectively via the collaborative document.

Communication platform document as a communication channel

The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for reacting to a message in a communication platform. An exemplary method implemented at least in part by a user computing device of a user associated with a communication platform comprises: displaying the message in a message area; identifying, based on the message, one or more reactive emojis; displaying one or more graphical representations of the one or more reactive emojis; receiving, from a user, an input selecting a graphical representation of the one or more reactive graphical representations; in response to receiving the input, displaying a reaction to the message in a reaction area; and displaying a response input area for inputting a response to the message.

System and method for reacting to messages

Media, methods, and systems are disclosed for generating a document from a workflow within a group-based communication system. A document may be created from a document template in response to a workflow trigger. The document may have a plurality of structured sections and a plurality of unstructured sections. Unstructured input may be received into an unstructured section and saved into the document. Structured input may be received into a structured section. Based on the structured input, a step of a workflow associated with the document may be performed and a result saved into the document.

Workflows for documents

A group-based communication platform can present, via a client device of the group-based communication platform, a user interface that includes a user interface element, interaction therewith, invoking a command associated with an external system. Based at partly on receiving an indication of an interaction with the user interface element, the group-based communication platform can cause payload data to be provided to the external system, wherein the payload data is associated with an indication of the command invoked via the interaction. Based at least partly on causing the payload data to be provided to the external system, a response to the payload data can be received and an interactive dialog can be presented via the user interface. The interactive dialog can be configured to prompt a user of the client device for data to be provided to the external system for performing a processing action associated with the command.

Systems and methods for initiating external actions via a group-based communication system

Embedding functionality of a communication platform into a third-party application is described. The communication platform can receive, from the third-party application, a request to connect to the communication platform, wherein the third-party application and the communication platform are associated with a user account. In response to receiving the request, causing an embedded user interface associated with the communication platform to be presented via a user interface of the third-party application. In an example, data input in the embedded user interface can be presented via a group-based communication user interface of the communication platform.

Integration of communication platform functionality with a third-party application

A group-based communication platform is configured to initialize processing actions executable via validated external resources. Moreover, the group-based communication platform may recommend specific processing actions to a user based at least in part on the user's activity in interacting with the group-based communication platform (e.g., via a client device), wherein such activity may be represented as environmental contextual data. Moreover, once the user selects a particular processing action for execution, the group-based communication retrieves at least a portion of the generated environmental contextual data to be passed to the validated external resource for use in executing the selected processing action.

Systems and methods for initiating processing actions utilizing automatically generated data of a group-based communication system

A group-based communication platform may be utilized to execute one or more processing actions via respective external application systems based on messages exchanged among client devices via the group-based communication platform. A particular processing action may be executed for a particular message by generating a container including contextual data and payload data, wherein the payload data comprises the message for which the processing action is to be performed. The container is provided to the external application system via a proxy endpoint, thereby causing the external application system to execute the processing action based on the data included within the container.

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Andrew Fong