# Set up Slack notifications for Confluence approvals

To get Confluence approval requests in Slack, a Confluence administrator opens Capable's **Global settings**, selects the **Notifications** tab, turns on the connect switch on the **Slack** card and authorises the Capable app in Slack. Direct messages start straight away, and **Slack approval actions** adds buttons so people can answer in Slack.

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## Before you start

| **You need**                                               | **Why**                                                  |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| A Confluence administrator                                 | Global settings is for administrators only.              |
| Somebody who can add apps to your Slack workspace          | Slack asks you to authorise the Capable app.             |
| Approvers whose Confluence and Slack email addresses match | Capable finds people in Slack by their Confluence email. |

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## Steps

1. Open **Global settings**. Site administrators find it under **Manage** in the Approval sidebar, or in Confluence administration.
2. Select the **Notifications** tab.
3. On the **Slack** card, turn on the connect switch.
4. Authorise the Capable app in Slack when asked.
5. To let people answer from Slack, turn on **Slack approval actions** on the same card.

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## What happens next

From now on, people asked to approve a page get a direct message from Capable in Slack, as well as the email. To post a whole space's approval activity into a channel, see [Post Confluence approval updates to a Slack channel](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/post-confluence-approval-updates-to-a-slack-channel.html).

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One Slack workspace per Confluence site. Connecting a new workspace replaces the old one, and disconnecting turns Slack off for everybody.

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## If it does not work

* One person gets nothing: check their Confluence and Slack email addresses match, and that they have not switched off **Send me Slack notifications**.
* Messages arrive but have no buttons: turn on **Slack approval actions**, or the space requires an authenticator code, which Slack cannot collect.
* Nobody gets anything: check **Slack integration** is on, on the Slack card.

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## Related

### [Slack](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/slack.html)

Everything about Slack messages, buttons and channels.

### [Approve or reject Confluence pages from Slack](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/approve-or-reject-confluence-pages-from-slack.html)

What approvers see and do.

### [Post Confluence approval updates to a Slack channel](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/post-confluence-approval-updates-to-a-slack-channel.html)

Let a whole team watch a space.

### [Notifications](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/notifications.html)

Who hears about what, on every channel.

### [Integrating Confluence approvals with Slack](https://help.gocapable.com/approval/integrating-confluence-approvals-with-slack.html)

All Slack how-to guides.

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_Reviews move at the speed of a Slack message._