Slack, the office workplace messaging app used by about three million people a day, took another step in its quest to become the app where you spend most of your working life. It added buttons.
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Get ready to approve or deny expense reports and other basic functions directly in Slack.
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They’re called message buttons, and they link to tasks in third-party applications. A common example: The boss sees “approve” and “deny” buttons in an automated message in their Slack feed for dealing with expense reports. In that instance, the buttons are connected to Abacus, a corporate expense reporting app.
Abacus is only one of a dozen third-party apps with buttons enabled in Slack. Others include Trello for managing projects; Kayak for travel; PagerDuty, an app for tracking and resolving unexpected problems; and Greenhouse, for approving new hires. Slack users who have those apps enabled can start using the buttons right away.
Slack also said the number of third-party apps it works with has grown to 500 since it launched its app directory in December.
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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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