Slack Technologies, Inc.
METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING AN ELECTRONIC ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DISPLAY IN A GROUP-BASED COMMUNICATION INTERFACE

Abstract:

Various methods and systems for generating an electronic group-based announcement in a group-based communication system. The methods further correspond to receiving an electronic group-based announcement request associated with a user identifier and identifying one or more selected group-based communication channels of the plurality of group-based communication channels associated with the user identifier used to facilitate access control for the electronic group-based announcement in the group-based communication system. The methods further include transmitting the electronic group-based announcement for rendering within group-based communication channel interfaces associated with the identified one or more selected group-based communication channels or an announcement interface element of the group-based communication system, wherein the electronic group-based announcement is rendered based at least in part on publish control parameters.