Deactivate Slack notifications

Deactivate Slack notifications#

This guide shows you how to stop a Plone instance from posting to Slack, without changing its content rules.

Use it when you run a copy of a production database, for example in development or staging, so the copy does not post to the production channels.

Set the environment variable#

Set DEACTIVATE_SLACK_NOTIFICATION to deactivate in the environment of the Plone backend.

export DEACTIVATE_SLACK_NOTIFICATION=deactivate

services:
  backend:
    environment:
      DEACTIVATE_SLACK_NOTIFICATION: deactivate

The value is case-insensitive. Any other value, or no value, leaves notifications active.

Restart Plone#

Restart the Plone backend. contentrules.slack reads the variable once, at startup.

Content rules keep running, but their Slack actions post nothing.

Reactivate notifications#

Remove the variable, or set it to an empty value, and restart the Plone backend.

See also

Configuration lists every setting, and where else they can be defined.

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