Slack: see and move your work without leaving the conversation
Post project activity to channels, get your notifications as direct messages, and update cards and sprints from Slack.
Connect your workspace
A workspace admin connects Slack once for each Flying Donut workspace. Open the workspace, go to the Integrations tab, click Add to Slack and approve the app in Slack.
- Only workspace admins see the Integrations tab
- Every project in the workspace can then use the connection
- One Slack workspace can serve several Flying Donut workspaces
- Slack is available on every plan
Choose the channels for a project
Project admins open Project Settings → Integrations → Slack and add a channel. For each channel, choose what it hears about and, if you want, limit it to certain labels.
- Events: new and completed cards, sprints starting and finishing, column moves, assignments, comments, due dates and overdue cards
- Many updates at once arrive as one summary
- Posts name people without pinging them
- A private project warns you before it posts to a channel
Link your Slack account
Each person links their own account once, so Slack knows who is acting. Run /flyingdonut link in Slack, or use Link in the Slack section of your account's notification settings. Anything that needs a link also offers one when you first try it.
- Get card, discussion and reminder notifications as direct messages, with a switch for each kind
- Everything you do in Slack runs as you, with the same permissions as in Flying Donut
- Remove the link at any time with /flyingdonut unlink or under Connected apps
Work on a card from Slack
Cards in channel posts, direct messages, link previews, search results and your work list have a ⋯ menu beside them. Replies are visible only to you, and the change appears in Flying Donut straight away.
- Assign to me or Unassign me
- Mark as done on a Scrum board, or Move to another column, sprint or bucket on a Scrumban or Kanban board
- Comment, with Markdown
- Edit the title, description, assignees, followers, due date and your reminder
- Open the card in Flying Donut
Commands and shortcuts
Type /flyingdonut in any conversation. Replies are visible only to you. In a channel connected to a project, search and sprint stay within that project.
- /flyingdonut create <title>: create a card
- /flyingdonut search <text>: find cards by text or #number
- /flyingdonut my: list your open cards, most urgent first
- /flyingdonut sprint [project]: see a sprint's progress and switch to other sprints
- /flyingdonut help: list every command
- Message shortcuts: Create Flying Donut card and Add to Flying Donut card, from the More actions menu of any message
Your work and your sprints
Open the Flying Donut app in Slack and go to its Home tab to see your work and your running sprints, and to create or search for cards. Turn on the daily digest there, or under Connected apps, to get your overdue, due today and newly assigned cards in one message.
People who can change a project can also start the next sprint or complete the running one from the sprint summary. Slack asks for the details first, just as the web app does.
Link previews
Paste a link to a card, board or project and Slack shows what it is. The access of the person who shared the link decides: a private item gets a preview only when they have linked their account and can open it.
Common questions
Why don't I see the Integrations tab?+
Why am I asked to link my account?+
Can someone in the channel see a project they don't have access to?+
Are comments synced with Slack threads?+
Can I manage labels, tasks or time tracking from Slack?+
Is Enterprise Grid supported?+
Connect Slack and keep your team's work moving
A workspace admin can connect Slack from the workspace's Integrations tab in a few clicks.