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Overview

Below outlines the general publishing options that are currently available in the Slack plugin. In your ImageRender, Playblast, or Export states, you should now see the option to select the Slack checkbox to enable publishing to Slack or notifying an artist of an incoming render.
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Render\Playblast

ImageRender State
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Export

Export State

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Publishing to Slack

Selecting this option will allow youto upload your content directly to the Slack channel associated with the project. This will send the content directly to Slack. You are free to leave comments here that will get uploaded to Slack. You can also notify a user when content is on the way to be published. You can view what that will look like here: Slack - Notifications When you choose to render an image sequence is when things start to get a bit interesting. Refer to the Conversion section below for more information.

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Notify Artist

This option will allow you to choose an artist to send a notification to, whether that be by channel, directly, or ephemerally.
It is possible for the Slack options to lag a bit to populate because it’s trying to gather all of the users in the Slack channel.
The notification gets sent as part of the preRender, prePlayblast, preExport callback. So it gets executed before everything else. If you want to know what these notifcations look like, go here: Slack - Notifications

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Status

If the Approvals options are enabled, Status will allow the artist to send their post with Approvals buttons. You can find more information on that here: Slack - Approvals Based on the status of the post, it will update the status in the local versions json file. It will mark as:
ip/In Progress - If post is marked as Work in Progress
rev/To Review - If post is marked as Request Review

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Conversion

You are more than welcome to render out an Image Sequence directly from the State Manager and Publish to Slack, however there are a few things you need to know. When you render an image sequence, it will be automatically converted to an MP4 so that Slack doesn’t upload just the first frame, or potentially 10s of frames all at the same time. Follow the general chart below to figure out whether or not it will be converted. This process happens after the rendering is completed so it happens in the “postRender” callback.