Salesforce, Inc.

Slack Technologies, Inc.

Matthew Hodgins

Michael Montazeri

Shanan Delp

Elizabeth Clemenson

Andrew Schmidt

Yingyu Sun

Siddhi Soman

Kyle Stetz

Lauren Bosak Wagner

Gregg Horton

Anna Kalkanis

Joan Gamell Farre

Jessica Fain

Corey Baker

Nicole Fish

Sri Mahesh Vutukuri

Zach Forrest Y Salazar

Himanshu Sharma

Stephen Burgess

Michael Hahn

Daniel Stewart Butterfield

Beau Carlborg

Paul Duan

James Colgan

Ugochukwu Douglas Chukwu

Christine Lee

Sarah Raines

Neil Kamireddy

Message moderation is described herein. In an example, a message posted to a virtual space of a communication platform can be flagged for review by a reviewer (e.g., an administrator or other user permissioned to review messages). In some examples, such a reviewer can review a flagged message and determine one or more actions to be performed. Such actions can include removing the message from presentation via the communication platform, modifying presentation of the message via a user interface of the communication platform, replying to the message (e.g., to suggest taking the conversation offline or to another virtual space), disabling interaction with the message, and/or the like. Message moderation, as described herein, can streamline resolution of conversations that become out of hand and/or off topic.

Message moderation in a communication platform

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to efficiently manage group-based communication interfaces associated with one or more group-based communication workspaces. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to create and assign labels in association with one or more of a plurality of group-based communication channels that are associated with two or more groups or organizations. The labels corresponding to the communication channels associated with the two or more groups or organizations may be displayed to a sidebar label focus interface component of a sidebar pane of the group-based communication interfaces. The labels may be combined with other data of the groups or organizations, such as group-based communication workspaces, to assemble one or more work graph data structures.

Organization of channel labels associated with a plurality of group-based communication channels in a communication platform

Systems and methods initialize distributed client device membership for new client devices joining a group-based communication channel established for content exchange among a plurality of distributed client device members. The systems and methods comprise aspects for executing a content analysis over the content of the one or more group-based communication channels to identify characterizing terms associated with each group-based communication channel. After the content analysis is performed, systems receive search parameters from a potential new member client device for a group-based communication server. Various systems and methods provide selected search results generated based at least in part on a determination that characterizing terms match one or more of the search parameters to the client device. Those selected results comprise a target that is executable by the client device to join the associated group-based communication channel.

Systems and methods for managing distributed client device membership within group-based communication channels

Various examples of the present disclosure can be directed to programmatically generating and rendering for display a context pane within a group-based communication interface. In some examples, the context pane comprises context pane content representative of channel membership associated with a communication channel identifier with which the group-based communication interface is associated. Group-based communication objects of a group-based communication data corpus can be utilized (e.g., by way of a trained machine learning model and/or work graph data structures) to inform the determination of context pane content.

Dynamically generated context pane within a group-based communication interface

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication apparatus that is configured to enable end-users (e.g., non-admin users) to initiate, by way of client devices, generation of a shareable resource associated with a group-based communication resource identifier to efficiently authorize communication between client devices associated with different organization identifiers in group-based communication interfaces associated with a shared group-based communication resource identifier.

Authorizations associated with externally shared communication resources

Disabling interaction with messages in a communication platform

A board associated with a communication platform and/or one or more channels associated therewith is described. In an example, the board can be associated with editable text and one or more objects capable of being at least one of reordered, added, deleted, or edited. In an example, the one or more objects can be associated with one or more sections. In an example, a communication platform can perform a modification to the board, based at least in part on receiving a request associated with the modification, and can cause the board to be presented via a user interface associated with a member of at least one communication channel with which the board is associated. In an example, the board can be sharable with users associated with different communication channels, workspaces, organizations, or the like.

Electronic board associated with a communication platform

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to efficiently manage group-based communication interfaces associated with one or more group-based communication workspaces. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to create and assign user-defined channel labels in association with one or more of a plurality of group-based communication channels. The user-defined channel labels may be displayed to a sidebar label focus interface component of a sidebar pane of the group-based communication interfaces. The user-defined channel labels may be combined with other data of the group-based communication workspaces to assemble one or more work graph data structures.

Group-based communication system and apparatus configured to manage user-defined channel labels associated with a plurality of group-based communication channels

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Matthew Hodgins