Slack pattern examples for Hoopla

Giving Kudos

Trigger a Newsflash any time your team pats each other on the back. Set your Simple Pattern to Congrats or Way to go (or any other words your team uses) and select which Slack channel to track them on.

Tip: Select the channel where these announcements appear (such as #salesteam if you want to track how many times your sales team congratulates each other)

Company Announcements

Whether it’s an all-hands meeting or birthday cake in the kitchen, time-sensitive announcements aren’t always seen right away. Set up a Newsflash to fire any time you want your office to be made aware of news right away.

Set your Simple Pattern to Meeting starts now or Birthday cake in the kitchen (or any other words your team uses) and select which Slack channel to track them on.

Share Department News

Help your individual departments share their latest wins to the entire office by firing a Newsflash with the latest department news.

• Product Team - To announce the release of new features, set your Simple Pattern to Prod Release or New Features and select the appropriate Slack channel, OR set up a Regular Expression [Ss]print\s+\d+.*Production to announce the latest Sprint in Production.

• Sales - To announce new deals, set your Simple Pattern to Closed New Deal or Closed Won and select the appropriate Slack channel.

• Marketing - Keep up with the latest blog post by setting your Simple Pattern to Blog or Blog Post and select the appropriate Slack channel.

Metric Updates Slack Patterns

Track Updates from other Bots

Track the number of New Relic Alerts or Support tickets that are coming into your channel.

• Set your Simple Pattern to Alert or Zendesk visitor.

• Configure your Pattern to increase a Generic Metric, like Monthly Alerts, by “1”.

Track Sales team KPIs

You can update Sales team KPIs that you track with Metrics.

• Select Show advanced settings to have your Hoopla bot track a Regular Expression

• Set up your Regular Expression to track any time a team member announces they closed a deal, such as closed.*\$(?<amount>[\d,.]+).*. For example, “I just closed ABC Corp for $5,000” captures the complete amount 5,000 in the amount group.

• Configure your Pattern to increase your Team Metric, such as Team ARR, by the amount in your capture group.

Related articles

• Automate with Slack patterns in Hoopla Set up Slack patterns so the Hoopla Bot triggers a newsflash or updates a metric when chosen words appear in Slack.
• Use capture groups in Slack patterns to extract values Use named regular expression capture groups in Slack patterns to pull values into metric updates or newsflash messages.
• Configure Slack Newsflash in Hoopla Set up a Slack Newsflash so your team can post announcements from Slack channels to your Hoopla TV screens with the /raydiant command.