# Slack notifications

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Slack Notifications are no longer working since the move from Sealights' to Tricentis' Slack account
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### Enabling Sealights Integration with Slack in Your Organization <a href="#enabling-sealights-integration-with-slack-in-your-organization" id="enabling-sealights-integration-with-slack-in-your-organization"></a>

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Slack Administrative permissions are required to enable the Sealights integration.\
Please contact your IT department if is not associated with your account.
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To enable notifications in your Slack, please open the Cockpit > Settings > Integration > Third Party page and press the **‘Add to Slack**’ button.

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This will open a page in Slack to enable the integration and review the permissions requested by Sealights, press the ‘**Allow**’ button.

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When installation is completed you’ll see the following Cockpit > Settings page updated

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### Adding Slack recipients to your Sealights Notifications <a href="#adding-slack-recipients-to-your-sealights-notifications" id="adding-slack-recipients-to-your-sealights-notifications"></a>

Following the installation, any user will be able to setup notifications to include the Slack channel by defining the Slack recipient who needs to receive the notification from Sealight per the rule defined.

Possible Slack recipients are retrieved from your Slack information:

* @members
* \#channels

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Notifications will appear like the one below as Direct Messages from Slackbot

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### Slack private channel <a href="#slack-private-channel" id="slack-private-channel"></a>

If you need to send Sealights notifications to a Slack channel marked as **private**, you’ll need to add Sealights app specifically to the channel.

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Your channel is **private** if there is a black locker icon next to its name.
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For that purpose, select the “**Add App**” option either from the channel menu or from its Apps section in channel details.

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Search for the Sealights app and **add it**

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The app will appear in the list of authorized apps in the channel and will be able to publish notifications

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When Sealights app is not explicitly added to the private channel, a specific error returned by the Slack API is visible in the Cockpit Build Monitor:\
`Notification failed on channel SLACK: Slack user was not found for recipient='#my-private-channel'`
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