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Slack

Using the Catalog slack your users will be able to

  • Ask any question to the Catalog Data assistant
  • Get notifications about assets they own
  • Provide in-context information on any Catalog url shared

Ask question from Slack to the Data Assistant​

When you're in a channel, simply type in @Coalesce and ask your question, the Assistant will answer you! Make sure to invite the assistant first in your channel.

See more on the Assistant here: introduction.md

User and Team Notifications in Slack​

Notification of new Comments​

Whenever someone will post a comment on your owned assets, you will receive a notification !

In case an asset does not have an owner, admins will get notified (probably a good sign that the asset should have one of several ownet)

Notification of Metadata changes​

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To avoid spamming, the following notifications are grouped in hourly batches. Catalog waits for 60 minutes without new notifications to send them as a batch

The following actions will trigger a notification to be sent to the table owner or the admins if there is no owner:

  • A table or column description is edited
  • An owner is added
  • A Tag is added/updated
  • The table is Certified/Uncertified
  • The table is Deprecated/Undeprecated

1. Get people to share Catalog-URL whenever they have a data question​

Like that, you're sure that they've checked the doc before asking a question

2. The Catalog Slack App adds context to the url​

3. It saves your thread on Catalog App​

By clicking on Save thread link in Catalog then the message url is saved in Catalog, on that Table, Dashboard or Knowledge page, in the Comments tab.

How to set up the Catalog Slack App​

At Catalog, we love to make things simple 😄

Requirements: be an Admin

  1. Get to the Integrations Set Up page
  2. Click on the Slack Tile
  3. Add the Catalog app on slack

Make sure to add the Catalog Slack Application in your Public Channel where you want it to run 😄 By default it will not be added, to give you full control on where it can act

Set up your teams notifications channel​

By following the documentation on this page