conversations.inviteShared

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Sends an invitation to a Slack Connect channel

Reference docs Tester

Notices

This API method can only be used on Enterprise Grid workspaces.

Facts

Method access

HTTP

JavaScript

Python

Java

HTTP

POSThttps://slack.com/api/conversations.inviteShared

Bolt for Java

app.client().conversationsInviteShared

Bolt for Python

app.client.conversations_inviteShared

Bolt for JavaScript

app.client.conversations.inviteShared

Required scopes

Bot tokensconversations.connect:writeconversations.connect:write

Content types

application/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/json

Rate limits

Tier 2

Arguments

Required arguments

token

token

·Required

Authentication token bearing required scopes. Tokens should be passed as an HTTP Authorization header or alternatively, as a POST parameter.

Example

xxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx

channel

string

·Required

ID of the channel on your team that you'd like to share

Example

C1234567890

Optional arguments

emails

array

·Optional

Optional email to receive this invite. Either emails or user_ids must be provided. Only one email or one user ID may be invited at a time.

external_limited

boolean

·Optional

Optional boolean on whether invite is to an external limited member. Defaults to true.

Example

true

user_ids

array

·Optional

Optional user_id to receive this invite. Either emails or user_ids must be provided. Only one email or one user ID may be invited at a time.

Usage info

This Slack Connect API method creates an invitation to a Slack Connect channel. The invitation can be sent to users or bots in another workspace either as a shareable URL or as an email invite.

The invited user must be known to your app (i.e., a channel is already shared between the organization your app is installed on and the organization of the user). If the channel to be joined is not already a Slack Connect channel, it becomes a Connect channel when you use this method to invite users from another workspace.

With the `user_ids` argument

If you supply a user's ID via the user_ids argument, we'll send a notification to the recipient's Slack client for them to accept.

{
	"ok": true,
	"invite_id": "I02UKAJ6RJA",
	"is_legacy_shared_channel": false
}

With the `emails` argument

If you supply a user's email via the emails argument, we'll send a transactional email to the recipient containing a URL that triggers joining the Slack Connect channel. Some fields are omitted if external_limited=true (see below).

{
	"ok": true,
	"invite_id": "I02UKAJ6RJA",
	"is_legacy_shared_channel": false
}

Please note that even though the emails and user_ids arguments accept arrays, only one email or one user ID may be invited at a time.

With the `external_limited` argument

Setting this argument to true will send an invitation limiting recipient's actions to only sending messages. They will not be able to invite other members (or bots) from their organization into the channel. They will also not be able to export the channel history, change its visibility, or change the channel topic or name. The channel will be set as private in the guest workspace.

Since this argument defaults to true, your app will need to explicitly set it to false if you would like the recipient to have more control over the channel in their workspace.

The ability to send either Slack Connect invitation type is controlled by the workspace setting Manage permissions for inviting people to channels. If an invite is sent of a type your app does not have permission to send, the restricted_action error is returned. For example, if the workspace is configured to disallow users from sending invitations with permission to post, invite, and more, setting external_limited=false will return an error.

When external_limited=true, the conf_code and url fields are not returned in the success response.

Example responses

Common successful response

Typical success response

{
    "ok": true,
    "invite_id": "I02UKAJ6RJA",
    "is_legacy_shared_channel": false
}

Common error response

Typical error response when no email address or user ID is provided

{
    "ok": false,
    "error": "restricted_action"
}

Errors

This table lists the expected errors that this method could return. However, other errors can be returned in the case where the service is down or other unexpected factors affect processing. Callers should always check the value of the ok params in the response.

Error	Description
`already_in_channel`	User is already in the channel.
`cannot_share_cross_workspace_channel`	You cannot share a cross-workspace or org-wide channel.
`cannot_share_mandatory_channel`	You cannot share #general or mandatory channels.
`channel_archived`	You cannot share an archived channel.
`channel_not_found`	The channel provided was not found.
`connection_limit_exceeded`	This channel has hit the limit of external connections.
`connection_limit_exceeded_pending`	This channel already has a pending invite.
`invalid_channel_type`	You cannot share MPDMs or DMs.
`invalid_email`	At least one email address provided is invalid.
`invite_lookup_error`	An error occurred while attempting to look for existing invites.
`invite_not_found`	An error occurred while inviting users.
`legacy_connection_limit_exceeded`	You cannot share a legacy ESC channel with a third team
`member_limit_exceeded`	This channel that has hit the limit of members
`message_too_long`	The provided message was longer than 560 characters.
`not_allowed_for_grid_workspace`	This workspace does not have Slack Connect enabled.
`not_in_channel`	The app is not a member of the channel to invite.
`not_owner`	Only the host organization for a channel can request to share it.
`not_paid`	This feature is only available to paid teams.
`not_supported`	This channel cannot be shared.
`ratelimit`	The rate-limit for this method has been reached. The ratelimit is applied on a per-user basis when you pass the `emails` parameter.
`recipients_not_specified`	Bots are required to specify which users to invite.
`restricted_action`	A team preference does not allow this authorization to send invites.
`too_many_emails`	Too many email recipients were passed in the `emails` parameter.
`url_in_message`	The message contained a URL.
`user_not_found`	User lookup failed.
`no_external_invite_permission`	User does not have permission to invite an external user.
`access_denied`	Access to a resource specified in the request is denied.
`account_inactive`	Authentication token is for a deleted user or workspace when using a `bot` token.
`deprecated_endpoint`	The endpoint has been deprecated.
`ekm_access_denied`	Administrators have suspended the ability to post a message.
`enterprise_is_restricted`	The method cannot be called from an Enterprise.
`invalid_auth`	Some aspect of authentication cannot be validated. Either the provided token is invalid or the request originates from an IP address disallowed from making the request.
`is_bot`	This method cannot be called by a legacy bot.
`user_is_restricted`	This method cannot be called by a restricted user or single channel guest.
`method_deprecated`	The method has been deprecated.
`missing_scope`	The token used is not granted the specific scope permissions required to complete this request.
`not_allowed_token_type`	The token type used in this request is not allowed.
`not_authed`	No authentication token provided.
`no_permission`	The workspace token used in this request does not have the permissions necessary to complete the request. Make sure your app is a member of the conversation it's attempting to post a message to.
`org_login_required`	The workspace is undergoing an enterprise migration and will not be available until migration is complete.
`token_expired`	Authentication token has expired
`token_revoked`	Authentication token is for a deleted user or workspace or the app has been removed when using a `user` token.
`two_factor_setup_required`	Two factor setup is required.
`team_access_not_granted`	The token used is not granted the specific workspace access required to complete this request.
`accesslimited`	Access to this method is limited on the current network
`fatal_error`	The server could not complete your operation(s) without encountering a catastrophic error. It's possible some aspect of the operation succeeded before the error was raised.
`internal_error`	The server could not complete your operation(s) without encountering an error, likely due to a transient issue on our end. It's possible some aspect of the operation succeeded before the error was raised.
`invalid_arg_name`	The method was passed an argument whose name falls outside the bounds of accepted or expected values. This includes very long names and names with non-alphanumeric characters other than `_`. If you get this error, it is typically an indication that you have made a very malformed API call.
`invalid_arguments`	The method was either called with invalid arguments or some detail about the arguments passed is invalid, which is more likely when using complex arguments like blocks or attachments.
`invalid_array_arg`	The method was passed an array as an argument. Please only input valid strings.
`invalid_charset`	The method was called via a `POST` request, but the `charset` specified in the `Content-Type` header was invalid. Valid charset names are: `utf-8` `iso-8859-1`.
`invalid_form_data`	The method was called via a `POST` request with `Content-Type` `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` or `multipart/form-data`, but the form data was either missing or syntactically invalid.
`invalid_post_type`	The method was called via a `POST` request, but the specified `Content-Type` was invalid. Valid types are: `application/json` `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` `multipart/form-data` `text/plain`.
`missing_post_type`	The method was called via a `POST` request and included a data payload, but the request did not include a `Content-Type` header.
`ratelimited`	The request has been ratelimited. Refer to the `Retry-After` header for when to retry the request.
`request_timeout`	The method was called via a `POST` request, but the `POST` data was either missing or truncated.
`service_unavailable`	The service is temporarily unavailable
`team_added_to_org`	The workspace associated with your request is currently undergoing migration to an Enterprise Organization. Web API and other platform operations will be intermittently unavailable until the transition is complete.

Warnings

This table lists the expected warnings that this method will return. However, other warnings can be returned in the case where the service is experiencing unexpected trouble.

Warning	Description
`missing_charset`	The method was called via a `POST` request, and recommended practice for the specified `Content-Type` is to include a `charset` parameter. However, no `charset` was present. Specifically, non-form-data content types (e.g. `text/plain`) are the ones for which `charset` is recommended.
`superfluous_charset`	The method was called via a `POST` request, and the specified `Content-Type` is not defined to understand the `charset` parameter. However, `charset` was in fact present. Specifically, form-data content types (e.g. `multipart/form-data`) are the ones for which `charset` is superfluous.

API response

URL

POST body

Submit your arguments to see the API response

conversations.inviteShared

Notices

Facts

Method access

Required scopes

Content types

Rate limits

Arguments

Usage info

With the user_ids argument

With the emails argument

With the external_limited argument

Example responses

Common successful response

Common error response

Errors

Warnings

Arguments

API response

With the `user_ids` argument

With the `emails` argument

With the `external_limited` argument