How do you send automatic Slack messages to a private channel?

[Connor Skiro]

After reviewing Atlassian's Slack automation documentation, I could not find any specific documentation about sending messages via Automation for Jira to private channels.

I am able to send Slack messages automatically to public channels, however, I am receiving a 404 error when trying to send a message to a private Slack channel.

Has anyone run into or solved this issue?

[Kirill Bobrovskikh · Accepted solution]

Hi Todor,

Loading local resources like file://///servername/shareddir/subdir/file should work in IE.

Firefox and Chrome don't allow such links because of security risks. You can find more info here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_%3A_Issues_%3A_Links_to_Local_Pages_Don%27t_Work

There're extensions for Chrome and Firefox that make it possible to use local links:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/locallinks/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida

https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/locallink/

I hope that helps.

Thanks,

Alex

[Todor Kostadinov]

Thank you Alex,

With the suggested extensions and with format file://///servername\sharename\folder\subfolder\file.ext it is working in both FF and Chrome, and even in IE.