Custom canvas templates can be shared in your workspace or Enterprise Grid organisation to standardise long-form content in Slack. Owners and admins can manage which members in their workspace or org can create and share custom canvas templates. On Enterprise Grid, org owners and admins can also manage permissions for publishing custom templates to the canvas template gallery.
Choose who can create canvas templates
Everyone (except guests) can create and share canvas templates, but you can restrict this permission if you’d like to.
Pro and Business+ subscriptions
Enterprise Grid subscription
From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
Hover over Tools & settings, then click Workspace settings.
Below Administration in the left sidebar, select Manage permissions. If you don’t see the left sidebar, click on Menu in the top-left corner.
Select Account Types.
Click the three dots icon next to Create canvas templates for a team, then select Edit permission.
Choose which roles can create canvas templates.
Click on Save.
From your desktop, click your organisation name in the sidebar.
Hover over Tools & settings, then click Organisation settings.
Click on People, then select Manage permissions.
Click Account types.
Click the three dots icon next to Create canvas templates for a team, then select Edit permission.
Choose which roles can create canvas templates.
Click on Save.
Choose who can publish templates to the template gallery
By default, org owners and admins and workspace owners and admins on Enterprise Grid can publish canvas templates to the Created by your organisation section of the template gallery. To restrict this to org owners and admins, follow the steps below:
From your desktop, click your organisation name in the sidebar.
Hover over Tools & settings, then click Organisation settings.
Click on People, then select Manage permissions.
Click Account types.
Click the three dots icon next to Publish canvas templates for the organisation, then select Edit permission.
Choose which roles can publish org-wide canvas templates.
Click on Save.
Assign template admins
By default, only owners and admins on Enterprise Grid can publish canvas templates to the Created by your organisation section of the template gallery. To allow other members to do this, you can assign them the template admin system role.
Note: An owner, admin, or template admin will also need to have Can edit access to the template to unpublish it from the gallery.
Who can use this feature?
Workspace owners/admins (Pro and Business+) and org owners/admins (Enterprise Grid)
