Allow Slack app to be reinstalled
Summary
Follow-up from #355998 (comment 921302547)
For the GBP update users will need to reinstall the app, so we need to provide a button to do that from the integration form in GitLab.
Currently we only show the Add to Slack
button when the app isn't installed yet:
After installing the form looks like this:
Improvements
- Add a button
Reinstall Slack app
on the integration form, which is shown when the project alias already exists.- We could use the button generator from https://api.slack.com/docs/slack-button#using-the-slack-button__add-the-slack-button, which produces some HTML/SVG where we can customize the text (the current
Add to Slack
PNG button could be replaced by this too). - We could add some help text to explain when this would be necessary (or add it to our docs and link them here).
- We could use the button generator from https://api.slack.com/docs/slack-button#using-the-slack-button__add-the-slack-button, which produces some HTML/SVG where we can customize the text (the current
- Check for an existing
SlackIntegration
record at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/67377043d28e0e53495452cc2d72ff78920d1b07/ee/app/services/projects/slack_application_install_service.rb#L37 and update it instead of creating a new one. - We could also start storing the
bot_user_id
andaccess_token
in theSlackIntegration
record, although we don't use them yet.
Edited by Markus Koller