Slack Technologies, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Ryan David Morris

Britton Jamison

James Barnes

Sharath Upadhya

Smruthi Venkatesh

Shivnag Kilaru

Smruthi Tatachar Venkatesh

Nathalie Kowalczyk

Michael Demmer

Yoav Sion

Samir Ketema

Preetham Deshikachar Shrinivas

Rohit Agarwal

Julie Cockle

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication system that is configured to more efficiently manage resource sharing requests. In particular, in some embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to enable admin users to use an external service, such as an external approval provisioning service, that is separate and distinct from the group-based communication system to manage group-based communication resource sharing requests. In other embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to allow communication with external users and to trigger new user onboarding protocols through the ingestion of external user directories associated with a sponsor user.

Methods and apparatuses for managing external approval provisioning and external messaging communication requests in a group-based communication system

Techniques are described for providing an interface for managing invitations to communicate via a communication platform. In an example, a first user can access a first interface to invite a second user to communicate via the communication platform. In response to input from the first user via the first interface, the communication platform can generate an invitation for the second user to communicate with the first user and can provide the invitation to the second user, such as by causing the invitation to be presented via a second interface. The second user can submit a response to the invitation via the second interface. The communication platform can update the first interface and the second interface based on response, such as, in examples in which the second user accepts the invitation, to reflect a newly established connection between the first user and the second user.

Connections interface for communication platform

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to efficiently manage channel title associated with group-based communication channels in a group-based communication system. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to determine and recommend channel title suggestions in association with the creation or renaming of group-based communication channels. The recommended channel title suggestions are determined based at least in part on a group-defined format protocol. The group-based communication apparatus also may be configured to utilize other data analytics (e.g., user profile data, group channel data, channel title data, channel title count data, channel title recency data, channel activity data, and/or the like) to inform the determination of recommended channel title suggestions. Additionally, the channel title data may be combined with other data of the group-based communication workspace to assemble one or more work graph data structures as discussed in detail herein.

Group-based communication system and apparatus configured to manage channel titles associated with group-based communication channels

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for servicing a group-based communication workspace add request within a group-based communication system.

Servicing group-based communication workspace add requests within a group-based communication system

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Almeda, CA, United States of America

Ryan David Morris