Slack
Setting up the Catalog Slack App, to get the Data Assistant in slack and never lose tribal knowledge again
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

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
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

Catalog link prettified and sync back to Catalog
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
Get to the Integrations Set Up page
Click on the Slack Tile
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
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