Slack Technologies, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Diogenes Brito

Salman Suhail

Andrew Fong

Prajna Shetty

Michael Deng

Pranay Agarwal

Hye Jung Choi

Stephen Sowole

Tolga Akin

Bruce Sullivan

Patricia Ang

Christopher Sullivan

Buster Benson

Meagan Gamache

Paul Matthew Jennings

Kefan Xie

Benjamin William Scholey Redman

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products that provide for an improved, more efficient, and more stable system of networked computing devices. The embodiments disclose an apparatus and system that enable client devices to selectively grant to third party applications permissions to access group-based communication objects of a group-based communication system. The apparatus and system further enable client devices to selectively grant to third party applications permissions to take specific actions with regards to the group-based communication objects within the system. To accomplish the improvements, the disclosed systems, apparatuses, and computing devices maintain a record of the permissions granted to third party applications in a permissions table stored in a computer storage device. The permissions table may be modified to expand the permissions granted to the third party application without requiring a new authentication process that issues a new authenticating token. Further, third party applications are installed at a group level and not at a user level within the system, which increases system stability and efficiency.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for selectively granting permissions to group-based objects in a group-based communication system

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

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