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This wiki is a preview for Slack orb version 4.0.0, due to release October 12th 2020

Slack Orb For CircleCI

Easily send customized Slack notifications as a part of your CI/CD pipeline, using rich templates.

What are Orbs?

Usage

The Slack orb makes use of OAuth to post messages to your Slack workspace. Follow our setup guide for authenticating with Slack.

For full usage guidelines, see the orb registry listing.

Templates

The Slack Orb comes with a number of included templates to get your started with minimal setup. Feel free to use an included template or create your own.

Template Preview	Template	Description
	basic_fail_1	Should be used with the "fail" event.
	success_tagged_deploy_1	To be used in the event of a successful deployment job. see orb usage examples
	basic_on_hold_1	To be used in the on-hold job. see orb usage examples

Custom Message Template

1. Open the Slack Block Kit Builder: https://app.slack.com/block-kit-builder/
2. Design your desired notification message.
3. Replace any placeholder values with $ENV environment variable strings.
4. Set the resulting code as the value for your custom parameter.

- slack/notify:
    event: always
    custom: |
      {
        "blocks": [
          {
            "type": "section",
            "fields": [
              {
                "type": "plain_text",
                "text": "*This is a text notification*",
                "emoji": true
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }

Branch Filtering

Limit Slack notifications to particular branches with the "branch_pattern" parameter.

A comma separated list of regex matchable branch names. Notifications will only be sent if sent from a job from these branches. By default ".+" will be used to match all branches. Pattern must match the full string, no partial matches.

See usage examples.

FAQ

View the FAQ Page