# Set up Slack notifications using the discourse-chat-integration plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-slack-notifications-using-the-discourse-chat-integration-plugin/66730>\
**Category:** Integrations\
**Tags:** chat-integration, how-to\
**Created:** [July 24, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-slack-notifications-using-the-discourse-chat-integration-plugin/66730 "2017-07-24T16:45:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![rkda](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rkda/32/120046_2.png) [@rkda](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rkda)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-slack-notifications-using-the-discourse-chat-integration-plugin/66730/22 "2018-04-04T08:10:53Z")

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Is this only limited to public channels or can it work with private Slack channels?

UPDATE: I got it to work by treating the private channels as public channels and prefixing its name with #. Slash commands still don’t work on private channels though.

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