Let your team know when there is a desk or parking available

Notify your team that a desk or parking spot has become available when a booking is cancelled on a day that way previously fully booked

Step 1: Select a channel you want to receive a reminder in and open it in Slack. (Only required if sending the notification to a channel) In this example we're going to use the "general" channel.

Image of the general channel in Slack

Step 2: Invite the Hot Desk bot to the channel. (Only required if sending the notification to a channel) Use the "/invite" slash command to add Hot Desk to the channel.

General channel in Slack with the invite command completed

Step 3: Hot Desk can now send messages to the channel. (Only required if sending the notification to a channel) You should see a message in the channel confirming Hot Desk has been added.

Image of the Hot Desk app added as an integration in the general channel in Slack

Step 4: Open the Hot Desk app in Slack and click "notifications".

Notifications button in Hot Desk app

Step 5: Click "Create notification".

Create notification button in Hot Desk app

Step 6: Click "capacity available"

Create notification flow for capacity available in Hot Desk app

Step 7: Select the channel(s) you added Hot Desk to, and the space(s) you want to get notified about - leave spaces empty to get notified about all spaces. Once complete click "Create".

Capacity available notification form completed in Hot Desk app

Done! You will now receive notifications in the channels you selected.

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