Slack plugin for Kanboard

Receive Kanboard notifications on Slack.

Author

Frederic Guillot
License MIT

Requirements

Kanboard >= 1.0.37

Installation

You have the choice between 3 methods:

Install the plugin from the Kanboard plugin manager in one click
Download the zip file and decompress everything under the directory plugins/Slack
Clone this repository into the folder plugins/Slack

Note: Plugin folder is case-sensitive.

Configuration

Firstly, you have to generate a new webhook url in Slack (Configured Integrations > Incoming Webhook) from here.

You can define only one webhook url (Settings > Integrations > Slack) and override the channel for each project and user.

Receive individual user notifications

Go to your user profile then choose Integrations > Slack
Copy and paste the webhook url from Slack or leave it blank if you want to use the global webhook url
Use @username to receive direct message to your user
Enable Slack in your user notifications Notifications > Slack

Receive project notifications to a room

Go to the project settings then choose Integrations > Slack
Copy and paste the webhook url from Slack or leave it blank if you want to use the global webhook url
Use #channel to receive messages in a specific channel
Enable Slack in your project notifications Notifications > Slack

Troubleshooting

Enable the debug mode
All connection errors with the Slack API are recorded in the log files data/debug.log or syslog