This thread is specifically for people to ask questions and learn more about how to effectively use the odrive Slack integration.
What does the integration do?
odrive allows you to sync all your Slack files to your desktop. This means that any channels (private or public) and any direct messages that contain documents, images, or any other files can be accessed and used on your desktop.
Every channel or direct message becomes a folder inside your odrive/Slack folder.
When you make edits to these files or add new files to any of these folders inside your odrive Slack folder, your edits get automatically pushed to that room or that direct message.
odrive also contains an awesome gallery view via the odrive web client that makes sorting and finding images super fast.
Feel free to ask any questions about the Slack integration here, tell us how much you like it, and perhaps most importantly, tell us what else you’d like to see or what you would find a useful addition to the integration.
We have a Slack channel set up with a client and our internal devs. The combined team is asking to use odrive to sync the files posted in Slack to their local machines.
This is what odrive does…right?
If I open up this access, can I restrict their syncing only to happen with files in channels for which they are approved to view? We have private documents from other clients in other channels and I need to make sure I can restrict access.
odrive will sync files in slack channels to a folder on the users local machine.
odrive is limited to the access permission of the user. Users can not access/sync channels they don’t have access to. From an administrative pov, you can be assured that user access rights are not altered by using odrive.
I recommend you link slack on your own odrive. It only takes a few clicks. You’ll see that only channels the user has access to can sync in odrive.
Does that help? Let us know if you have any questions.
Yes, this helps. Thanks for the confirmation. Before seeing your message, I tried setting up a test account in our Slack environment so I could inspect the behavior. Unfortunately I received a message reading “Your team’s settings don’t allow authorizing apps like odrive.”
I’m the admin of the Slack team and I don’t have any settings (intentionally) set to prevent this from working. Is it possible this is not supported with Single-Channel Slack users, by chance?
Or is there some other setting I should be looking for in the Slack Admin console?
