High Level Feature Overview
For more details, including usage logic and edge cases as well as sample designs, please review the Core UX page.
All of the below are available for both Mobile and Desktop:
Message Priority
Users can choose between 3 different priority types when composing messages:
Standard
Important
Adds a blue “Important” label to a message
Urgent
Adds a red “Urgent” label to a message
Introduces the concept of enabling persistent notifications for a message
Acknowledgement: Acknowledging Messages
For “Standard” and “Important” messages:
If the original message includes a mention (@user_or_group_name), then only those tagged can click the acknowledge button.
Otherwise, if there is no specific mention, then anyone who has access to view the message can acknowledge.
If a user mistakenly hits the acknowledgment button, they can undo this by clicking the button again (similar to reactions). However, undoing the acknowledgment is only available for 5 minutes. Once that time expires, it cannot be undone.
The acknowledgement button is hidden until someone who is eligible, as determined by the rule in the previous slide, has clicked it. After, acknowledgement counts are visible to all.
For “Urgent” messages:
Only those tagged via a mention can click the acknowledge button (@channel, @here, and @all cannot be used for urgent notifications).
If a user mistakenly hits the acknowledgment button, they can undo this by clicking the button again (similar to reactions). However, undoing the acknowledgment is only available for 5 minutes. Once that time expires, it cannot be undone.
The acknowledgement button is hidden until someone who is eligible, as determined by the rule in the previous slide, has clicked it. After, acknowledgement counts are visible to all.
Persistent Notifications: Enabling
Only “Urgent” message priority messages can be sent with persistent notifications enabled (the option is hidden for other message types).The following must be done in order to send an Urgent message:
The message must contain at least one @mention (can be a user or a group, but cannot be a channel-based mention (@channel, @here, @all, or @thread)
The user is not a “Guest” user (System Admins can allow Guests to use persistent messaging if they wish in settings).
If the above conditions are not met, the user will not be able to send the message with persistent notifications enabled (the send box will be greyed out to indicate this)
Persistent Notifications: Receiving
Any of the following actions will stop notifications:
Any of the tagged users replying to the original message
Any of the tagged users clicking the “Acknowledge” button
Any of the tagged users reacting with an emoji reaction
If the original message is deleted
After 30 minutes has passed.
The following is how statuses affect persistent notifications:
Do not disturb: users will not get notified
Offline - users will get notified
Away - users will get notified