# Optionally threading posts to parent topic in slack integration

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/optionally-threading-posts-to-parent-topic-in-slack-integration/150759
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** chat-integration
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optionally-threading-posts-to-parent-topic-in-slack-integration/150759 "2020-05-07T21:33:45Z")
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### Author: ![mcdanlj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcdanlj/32/131829_2.png) [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optionally-threading-posts-to-parent-topic-in-slack-integration/150759/22 "2020-07-06T21:28:19Z")

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Are you saying that you previously had rules that threaded, and with the most recent update you did, it is no longer threading? Or is it that you expected with the update that it would start threading them and it is not doing so?

I’m running discourse [093ee1d80c](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/093ee1d80c269afd00ba1341a3e71eb97e4ce7f1) and [discourse-chat-integration](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat-integration) da91061 (current up-to-date) and my channel with `thread` rules is correctly threading responses, only for channels set up with `thread` rules.

Can you show your configuration for a thread rule? In Admin → Plugins → Chat Integrations you should see rules that say

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/9/299a8188b66d60109938317336bcebb22dd0f8cc.png)

and if you click on the edit pencil you should see

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/3/73520cbbde7a9988d42238296947591f0c91bbac.png)

If you have rules that instead say:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/6/d6220847e6b817b0371c60831c02d291cf5a5c7a.png)

then those rules won’t use threads.

You’ll see above the rationale for this being a per-rule, not per-site, configuration.

When you set up a rule from the `/discourse` command in slack (or whatever command you chose when you set up the integration), you use `thread` instead of `watch` or `follow`, as documented in [Discourse Chat Integrations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522/1)

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