Gamification of assigning leads using Slack

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Requirements

• .Net hosting with a HTTPS configuration (I'm using Azure)
• Slack
• Mandrill
• MSSQL database

Installation

• Clone this repo.

• Setup a connection string to a MSSQL database in Web.config.

• Run Enable-Migrations and Update-Database in the Package Manager Console to initiate the database.

• In the database there's now a Agents table. For each agent (salesperson) add a row. (SlackId should be the user name in Slack)

• In Slack create a new channel (mine is called #leads) and under Custom Integrations add a Incoming WebHooks for this channel. Enter the generated webhook url in Web.config.

• Add these Slack Commands and enter tokens in Web.config:

  • /bid POST to https://yourdomain/api/slack/bid
  • /autobid POST to https://yourdomain/api/slack/autobid
  • /bids POST to https://yourdomain/api/slack/bids
  • /balance POST to https://yourdomain/api/slack/balance

• Get a Mandrill API key and enter in Web.config.

• In Mandrill setup an Inbound Domain and point this to https://yourdomain/api/mandrill/inbound.

• Publish to Azure?

  Usage in Slack

  /balance

  Show balance for each agent. (private)

  /bids

  Show all bids for current auction. (private)

  /bid X

  Set your bid to X for current auction.

  /bid

  Get your current bid. (private)

  /autobid X

  Set your autobid to X for future auctions

  /autobid

  Get your current autobid. (private)