shaunburdick/slack-ooo

Out of Office bot for Slack

Out of Office Bot for Slack

This bot can be told when you are out of the office. It will then listen to conversations and tell users that mention you that you are not around.

If you want a personal OoO bot that acts as you, check out shaunburdick/slack-ooo-personal!

Features

• Users set themselve out of the office by talking to the bot
• When a user that is set out of office is mentioned in a channel the bot is in, it will send a message to that channel that the user if out of the office and display their out of office message
• The bot can be configured to announce out of office users to specific channels on specific times (bot must be in that channel to make the announcement)

Usage

To use this bot, you start a conversation with it:

Shaun Burdick [5:29 PM]
hi

OOO BotBOT [5:29 PM]
Hello and welcome to Out of Office Bot!
You can ask for help at any time by saying `help`

I don't have you as out of office. Would you like to set yourself Out of Office? [Yes/No]

Shaun Burdick [5:29 PM]
help

OOO BotBOT [5:29 PM]
*Out of Office Bot*

I can keep track of when you are out of the office and tell people that mention you.

*Usage*:
To set yourself out of office, say hello and follow my prompts!
To return to the office once you are back, say hello again!

*Direct Commands:*
- message: _string_, To set your Out of Office message
          Example: `message: I am out of the office`
- start:   _string_, A parsable date/time string when your Out of Office begins
          Example: `start: 2015-06-06 8:00`
- end:     _string_, A parsable date/time string when your Out of Office ends
          Example: `end: 2015-06-06 16:00`

Shaun Burdick [5:29 PM]
ok, start: tomorrow end: next monday at 8am message: I will be out until next week

OOO BotBOT [5:29 PM]
-You will be marked Out of Office at Tomorrow at 12:00 PM
-You are marked Out of Office returning on Monday at 8:00 AM
-Setting your OOO Message to:
I will be out until next week

Announcements

The bot can announce which users are out of office on a schedule. To enable this feature, you need to provide the bot with a list of channels to make the announcement and at what times (local to bot).

• app.announce.channels: this is an array of channel names to announce to
  • The bot must be a member of the channel in order to make the announcements
  • channels names must not contain the starting #
• app.announce.times: this is an array of times each day to make the announcement
  • Each time will be considered as 24-hour time, (ie 13:00 is 1:00 pm)

Install

1. Clone this repository
2. npm install
3. Copy ./config.default.js to ./config.js (the same root directory) and fill it out
4. npm start

Test

1. npm install (make sure your NODE_ENV != production)
2. npm test

Docker

Build an image using docker build -t your_image:tag

Official Image shaunburdick/slack-ooo

Configuration Environment Variables

You can set the configuration of the bot by using environment variables. ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE=Default Value

• APP_ANNOUNCE_CHANNELS=general,random, A list of channels to announce OoO on
• APP_ANNOUNCE_TIMES=08:00,16:00, A list of times to announce OoO users
• SLACK_TOKEN=xoxb-foo, Your Slack Token
• SLACK_AUTO_RECONNECT=true, Reconnect on disconnect

Set them using the -e flag while running docker:

docker run -it \
-e SLACK_TOKEN=xobo-blarty-blar-blar \
shaunburdick/slack-ooo:latest

Contributing

1. Create a new branch, please don't work in master directly.
2. Add failing tests for the change you want to make (if appliciable). Run npm test to see the tests fail.
3. Fix stuff.
4. Run npm test to see if the tests pass. Repeat steps 2-4 until done.
5. Update the documentation to reflect any changes.
6. Push to your fork and submit a pull request.