Authentication

Create a connection between your Slack and Varolio accounts

Authentication Guide using OAuth

To use the Slack Plugin, follow these steps:

Step 1:

Sign in to your Slack account.

Step 2:

In Varolio, navigate to "Connections" in the sidebar options, press "Add" and choose Slack as your connection.

Step 3:

Choose a connection name, and press submit.

Step 4:

Insert your Slack account URL.

Step 5:

Sign in your slack using your google account.

Step 6:

Choose the premission you want to allow to Varolio.

Note: If you don't allow permissions, you won't be able to access certain functions that require those permissions. We recommend to allowing all permissions.

Alternatively, you can use API Credentials to connect to Slack:

Authentication Guide using API Credentials:

To connect using API credentials, you must first create a Slack app and obtain API credentials from there. Follow these steps to authenticate your app:

Step 1:

Go to the Slack API page at https://api.slack.com/.

Step 2:

Click on the "Create an app" button and select "From scratch" or if you already have an app open it through "Your apps" at the top right of the screen (move on to step 6 if you already have an app).

Step 3:

Enter an app name in the corresponding field.

Step 4:

Select a workspace for your app from the dropdown list.

Step 5:

Click on the "Create App" button.

Step 6:

In the left sidebar, click on "OAuth & Permissions".

Step 7:

Scroll down to the "Scopes" section and add the required scopes under the "Bot Token Scopes" section. The required scopes depend on the functions you want to use in Varolio.

Step 8:

Return to the Slack "OAuth & Permissions" page, scroll up to the "OAuth Tokens for Your Workspace" section and click on the "Install App to Workspace" button.

Step 9:

Click on the "Allow" button.

Step 10:

In OAuth and Permissions, copy the "User OAuth Token".

Step 11:

In Varolio, navigate to "Connections" in the sidebar options, press "Add" and choose Slack as your connection.

Step 12:

Give your connection a name, and paste the "User OAuth Token" you coppied in Varolio under "API Key" field.