Using Slack
From channels to search, learn how Slack works from top to bottom.
Edit tabs in a channel or DM
Every Slack channel and direct message (DM) has dedicated tabs for its messages, channel or DM canvas, files, workflows, pins and bookmarks that you can edit in the following ways:
- Choose how tabs are ordered and displayed in a conversation
- Create new tabs for canvases and lists
- Organise bookmarks into folders
Choose how tabs are displayed
Drag and drop tabs to arrange them, and follow the steps below to choose which tabs that you’d like to display to all members of the conversation:
- From your desktop, open a channel or DM.
- Click the plus button in the conversation header, then select Edit tabs.
- Click the show/hide icon next to the tabs you’d like to display, or the trash icon next to the tabs you’d like to delete, then click close.
Manage folders for bookmarks
You can organise useful links that are relevant to a conversation into bookmark folders. Each folder will appear as a tab in the conversation header.
Create a folder
- From your desktop, open a channel or DM.
- Click the plus button in the conversation header, then select Bookmark Folder.
- Enter a name for your folder and click Add.
- Click the bookmark folder to open it, then click Add Bookmark to add links to the folder.
Edit or delete a folder
- From your desktop, open a channel or DM.
- Right-click the bookmark folder and select Rename tab or Remove tab.
- Make your changes and click Save or Delete.
Note: Once you create a folder for bookmarks, anyone in the conversation will be able to edit the bookmarks, even if editing tabs is restricted to channel managers.
Create new tabs for canvases and lists
To feature important canvases and lists prominently in a channel or DM, you can add them as tabs.
Add a canvas
Add a list
- From your desktop, open a channel or DM.
- Click the on plus button in the conversation header, then select
Canvas.
- Search for and select a canvas, or click Create New Canvas.
- Click Insert.
- Review the sharing permissions, then click Share.
- From your desktop, open a channel or DM.
- Click the plus button in the conversation header, then select List.
- Search for and select a list, or click Create new list.
- Click Insert.
- Review the sharing permissions, then click Share.
Tip: If you use Slack Sales Elevate, you can also create channel tabs for record lists by clicking Salesforce list when you create a new channel tab.
Manage who can edit tabs
Channel Managers can allow everyone to edit the tabs in a channel, or restrict editing to only Channel Managers.
- From your desktop, open a channel that you manage.
- Click the channel name in the conversation header, then click Tabs.
- Under Choose who can add, remove, and reorder tabs, select an option from the drop-down menu.
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