2019-10-17 Slash Command Autocomplete Kickoff
- Ben Schumacher
Date
Oct 17, 2019
Participants
@Jesse Hallam
@Aaron Rothschild (Deactivated)
@Maria Nunez
@Ali Farooq (Deactivated)
@Shota Gvinepadze (Deactivated)
@Ben Schumacher
@Asaad Mahmood
@Prapti Shrestha (Deactivated)
Discussion points
At the very minimum, the slash command help text should stay on screen after the first space!
This functionality should apply to plugins and integrations alike.
Would love to have client-side autocomplete, where the integration can send down enough data on the first request to drive most common interactions without repeated requests to the integration endpoint.
Dynamic requests to the integration would enable context specific suggestions (e.g. Jira issue ID auto-complete based on context/configuration)
Optimizations might allow for prediction to reduce the latency of waiting for more results from the integration
Concern about mobile -> server -> integration RTT
Concern about potential complexity
Should first step be "send every character" (full functionality, might be slow) or "send autocomplete payload" (fast, but can't do dynamic things)
What issues are users actually running into slash commands? For example, emoji autocomplete requires typing a few characters, but often what @ali.farooq wants is just to suggest recently used emojis automatically.
As a concrete improvement, for JIRA, make it unnecessary to always do
/jira helpto figure out what to do.IDE Autocomplete experience enables auto-discovery: should aim for something similar with slash commands.
Should autocomplete apply to other interactions, like DMing a bot?
Propose Phase 1: Static autocomplete payload, Phase 2: Add "recently used" history, Phase 3: Dynamic fetch on each keystroke
Different auto-complete "trees" for different users/types of users?
Maybe merge Phase 1 + 2, and just expect the plugin to use the context to send down user-specific payload?
What about autocomplete for built-in commands? Can we move the built-in commands to a pre-packaged, auto-enabled plugin?!?
Can we add a "slash button" to enable discovery of slash commands (i.e. to the left of the post box)
Add to "Markdown hints" that you can use a slash command?