Use GetFlowing from Slack
Connect Slack to GetFlowing, ask for work with /getflowing or a mention, and approve requests from the channel you asked in.
Connect Slack to ask GetFlowing for new work from the channels your team already uses, and to answer the approvals that work asks for.
Connect Slack
- Go to Settings, then Workspace, and find the Slack card under Connections.
- Choose Connect, and allow GetFlowing in your Slack workspace.
- GetFlowing confirms with Slack connected.
Only owners and admins can connect or disconnect Slack. The person who connects it is linked to their GetFlowing account, so GetFlowing knows who is asking. Linking other teammates' Slack accounts is not available yet, so requests from them are not accepted.
Ask for work
In a channel the GetFlowing app is in, type /getflowing followed by what you want, or mention the app. GetFlowing replies in the same channel when it starts, and posts the result there when it finishes. It only ever replies where you asked: it does not post to other channels on its own.
From Slack you can start new work. Changing, testing, deploying, merging or rolling back an existing app, and questions about its status or logs, are not handled from Slack yet. Ask for those in the app's chat.
Approvals in Slack
When work you asked for from Slack needs an approval, the request appears in the same channel with Approve and Reject buttons. Only an owner or admin whose Slack account is linked can approve. The decision is posted in the channel and recorded like any other.
Approvals for work started anywhere else, and held self-heal fixes, are answered in GetFlowing, in the Inbox, under Approvals. See Approvals.
Disconnect Slack
On the Slack card, choose Disconnect. Your team stops getting updates and approval requests in Slack. You can connect it again at any time.
GitHub
Keep your apps' code in your own GitHub account, or let GetFlowing host it. Connect accounts, choose repositories and take your code with you.
Webhooks
Send GetFlowing's deploy, incident and approval events to your own systems as signed HTTPS requests, and check each request really came from GetFlowing.