Manage canvas settings in Slack
Canvases are surfaces built into Slack where members can create and share fully-formatted content. Channel and direct message (DM) canvases are available on all plans, while standalone canvases are only available on paid plans. Owners and admins can manage access to canvas version history, and turn off canvas update messages for channel and DM canvases.
Manage canvas version history
Anyone with permission to edit a canvas can access its revision history and restore a previous version. If you’d like, you can disable canvas version history so that only the most recent version is available.
Free, Pro, and Business+
Enterprise Grid
- From the Home tab, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then select Workspace Settings.
- Next to Canvases, click Expand.
- Check or uncheck Show canvas version history and allow restoration.
- Click Save.
Org Owners and Admins can manage canvas version history for everyone in your org.
- From the Home tab, click your organization name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organization Settings.
- Click Settings in the left sidebar, then select Organization Settings.
- Next to Canvases, click Edit.
- Check or uncheck Show canvas version history and allow restoration.
- Click Save.
Manage canvas sharing settings
By default, anyone with permission to edit a canvas can grant others access to view or edit it, but you can restrict this so that only the canvas owner can grant access to others. If you don’t restrict this, members of your workspace or Enterprise Grid organization can choose whether they’d like to restrict sharing on canvases they create.
Free, Pro, and Business+
Enterprise Grid
- From the Home tab, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then select Workspace Settings.
- Next to Canvas sharing, click Expand.
- Check or uncheck Limit sharing so only canvas owners can share their canvases with other people and channels.
- Click Save.
Org Owners and Admins can manage canvas sharing for everyone in your organization. It isn't possible to manage canvas sharing at the workspace level.
- From the Home tab, click your organization name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organization Settings.
- Click Settings in the left sidebar, then select Organization Settings.
- Next to Canvas sharing, click Edit.
- Check or uncheck Only allow canvas owners to share canvases with other people and channels.
- Click Save.
Manage canvas update messages
When someone in your workspace or organization updates a channel or DM canvas, or a canvas in a tab, we’ll send a message to the conversation to help keep other members informed of the changes. You can turn these update messages off, or allow members to manage canvas update messages in individual conversations.
Free, Pro, and Business+
Enterprise Grid
- From the Home tab, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then select Workspace Settings.
- Next to Canvas Update Messages, click Expand.
- Check or uncheck Disable canvas update messages.
- Click Save.
Org Owners and Admins can turn canvas update messages off for their organization, or allow Workspace Owners and Admins to manage update messages for their workspace(s).
Org level
- From the Home tab, click your organization name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organization Settings.
- Click Settings in the left sidebar, then select Organization Settings.
- Next to Canvas update messages, click Edit.
- Check or uncheck Disable canvas update messages.
- Select Org-wide channels or All channels to decide where update messages should be disabled.
- Click Save.
Workspace level
If canvas update messages are turned on at the org level, you can manage them for individual workspaces. Disabling canvas update messages will turn them off only for the channels in that workspace.
- From the Home tab, click your organization name in the sidebar.
- Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organization Settings.
- Click Settings in the left sidebar, then select Workspace Settings.
- Select a workspace from the drop-down menu, then click Open.
- Next to Canvas update messages, click Expand.
- Check or uncheck Disable canvas update messages.
- Click Save.
- Org Owners/Admins and Workspace Owners/Admins
- Available on all plans