Investigate Feasibility of Using UI Path to Automate Slack Invites

[christinaor]

Dependency

When the Dev Ops team finishes Terraform project, get this on their calendar.

Overview

Slack currently allows Hack for LA to create an invite link without an expiration, but which still expires after 400 invites, requiring a new linked to be generated for every other onboarding. We want to investigate whether we can use UI Path to create a desktop automation of this process so that it does not need to be reset manually every month.

To Adopt this issue

Ask the Org Rep or your Dev lead for access to the Slack Invites 1Password vault

Action Items

• Become familiar with how Slack invite links are generated.
• Reach out to Bonnie for Slack permissions to generate invite links.
  • Check that you are able to generate an invite link manually.
• Sign up and download UI Path with a new account.
  • Coordinate with Team Leads to make sure the account will be accessible by Hack for LA.
• Follow instructions from UI Path on how to create an automation.
• Test that the automation successfully generates an invite.
  • Ensure the automation generates an invite in set time intervals.
  • Be careful not to hit Slack's invite generation limits.
• If a UI Path automation not possible, make a list of other automation solutions by doing internet research
  • Anything that uses a slack app, we might not be able to use because Slack has a limit on their free plans. So indicate if it requires a slack app.
  • Discuss findings with Team Leads and Product

Resources/Instructions

• Info on Slack invites
• Signing up for Path UI Community edition
• Creating your first automation path with UI Path
• Background of history of closed issue Investigate Herokuapp Ownership and Setup #3433
• See associated ER for this issue: ER: Investigate automated slack invites that work with free plan #4277

[jdingeman]

Hey @christinaor - nice job. I edited one thing about the Slack permissions as I don't have any extra Slack permissions. It is maintained by Bonnie, so if it is necessary for the dev to have those permissions, they will need to reach out to her.

[github-actions]

Hi @LOSjr4, thank you for taking up this issue! Hfla appreciates you :)

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[LOSjr4]

Availability: Weekday morning, but most definitely M,T,TH 9AM-1PM
ETA: 5/9/23

[LOSjr4]

@bonniewolfe,
I've read through select documentation on Slack and UiPath, and watched some tutorials on how to use UiPath and it's capabilities.
I'm ready for you to give me Slack permissions to generate invite links.

-Luis