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Connector Improvement: Add email to slack lite connector

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Priya Gupta User

Please add email to the slack lite connector. Was hoping to use the connector for several use cases but an unable to do so until email is added! 

Thanks, 

Priys

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  • Official comment
    Ray User

    Hi there,

    Apologies for the inconsistent communication here. It's correct that we've updated the connector to support user emails. We have made a number of changes to improve the Slack connector and hope they are appreciated. If you have any other unmet needs, please create new feature requests! Even if we don't always  respond in a timely manner, we do see and read them!

  • Alison Fivetranner

    Hi Priya,

    Thank you for taking the time to share this feature request with us. Can you please tell me a little bit more about what you mean by add 'email' to the slack connector. Slack is a messaging service, which emails are you referring too and what data would you hope to see in your warehouse?

    Sharing more about your use cases might help and would be super valuable to us.

    Best Regards

    Alison

  • Priya Gupta User

    Hi Alison, I am aware that slack is a messaging service. Email is in reference to the user who has signed up. Most of the time, email is the single source of truth for a user's identity because folks can enter any name to identify themselves when signing up for slack. 

  • Grant Henke User

    +1 to this, the Slack users profile email is essential to be included in the USERS table so that we can reliably join this data with other downstream user data. 

  • Charlie Daly User

    +1, we need this to be able to make our slack integration work and tie in with other data sources.

  • Grant Henke User

    As a workaround, we implemented our own AWS Lambda connector. We blogged about it here for anyone that may need it. It works well with the lite connector by joining on the slack id.

    https://www.phdata.io/blog/integrating-slack-data-into-snowflake-using-fivetran/

  • Priya Gupta User

    Could I get an update on this? 

  • Priya Gupta User

    Well it looks like Fivetran never followed up but has finally added profile_email in their latest role out. I find it odd how they never updated this ticket if they were working on bringing it in.