# Slack (official plugin) sending topics from staff categories
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** chat-integration
**Created:** [2016 年9 月 1 日 20:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578 "2016-09-01T20:40:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### 作者：  [@kuyashi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kuyashi)
#### 发布日期： [2016 年9 月 1 日 20:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/1 "2016-09-01T20:40:37Z")
Regarding:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-slack-official](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-slack-official)
- I have the plugin setup. However it is sending topics and replies from **staff categories** into the designated Slack channel. This, obviously presents an issue regarding privilege - I doubt this is intentional, so is there a work-around ?
- Also, regarding the setup docs on the repo page above:
- after step 4 it states:
> By default, every new post on your Discourse will now create a Slack message in the channel you specified..
- … this should be changed to state that setting up the `slash command` is not optional as once this plugin is installed, web-hook setup and a new topic is created/replied - it doesn’t send to slack channel unless [these](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-slack-official/blob/master/README-SLASHCOMMAND.md) instructions are followed, followed by entering the appropriate /command in the slack channel assigned:
` /discourse [watch|follow|mute|help|status] [category|all]`
_watch_ – notify this channel for new topics and new replies
_follow_ – notify this channel for new topics
_mute_ – stop notifying this channel
_status_ – show current notification state and categories
i.e. `/discourse watch all`
only then will new topics/replies be sent successfully to the slack channel.
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### 作者：  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### 发布日期： [2016 年9 月 1 日 23:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/2 "2016-09-01T23:20:26Z")
@nick should answer more specifically, but I think the correct way to handle this, is to make sure the user Slack is posting on behalf of, is not a staff user?
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### 作者：  [@Nick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nick)
#### 发布日期： [2016 年9 月 1 日 23:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/3 "2016-09-01T23:30:31Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> make sure the user Slack is posting on behalf of, is not a staff user?
This is the only way the plugin currently has built in. The plugin setting is “slack discourse username”
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### 作者：  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年3 月 1 日 15:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/4 "2017-03-01T15:26:58Z")
I think there is still an issue here.
When you do:
```plaintext
/discourse status
```
It (correctly) only displays categories that the `slack_discourse_username` can see:
```plaintext
Here are your available categories: a, b, c
```
But if you do
```plaintext
/discourse watch all
```
And then create a post in the staff category, it gets posted to the channel anyway.
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### 作者：  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年3 月 1 日 15:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/5 "2017-03-01T15:59:49Z")
Do you mean `/discourse watch all` command posting topics of categories which are unavailable?
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### 作者：  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年3 月 1 日 16:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/6 "2017-03-01T16:41:54Z")
Yep, that’s the problem.
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### 作者：  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年4 月 5 日 14:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/7 "2017-04-05T14:12:11Z")
I’m looking forward to encouraging more people to use the plugin in their own channels [now that they can subscribe to particular tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-official-discourse-slack-plugin/51412/37), but concerned that this issue leaves the door open for people to access categories that staff on the site assume are private.
@vinothkannans after all your work to add tag support and better test coverage of the slack plugin, do you have thoughts on how best to address this issue?
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### 作者：  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年4 月 5 日 14:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/8 "2017-04-05T14:44:05Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-slack-official/pull/29](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-slack-official/pull/29)
I created a PR for this. I hope it will this fix issue completely. Can you please look at the code?
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### 作者：  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年4 月 11 日 12:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/9 "2017-04-11T12:54:53Z")
@vinothkannans and @tgxworld, from the comments on the PR, I’m having trouble understanding who is waiting for whom to make the next move.
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### 作者：  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年4 月 11 日 12:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/10 "2017-04-11T12:57:04Z")
As I told in PR I will do the needful soon.
Edit: @mcwumbly PR updated 👍
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### 作者：  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年4 月 19 日 13:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/11 "2017-04-19T13:50:11Z")
Thanks! this is now working great.
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### 作者：  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### 发布日期： [2017 年4 月 19 日 20:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-official-plugin-sending-topics-from-staff-categories/49578/12 "2017-04-19T20:01:46Z")