Slack Bot

We are available on Slack on dedicated Slack channels and both the Adobe team and the Slack bot are available to answer your questions.

The Adobe team is globally distributed. During US and European business hours you can expect to receive an answer within one hour. Outside those times, responses may take a bit longer.

Slack Bot Installation

In order to use the AEM Slack bot, it must be configured for your Slack channel and AEM project.

1. Go to your Slack channel (or request a channel for your project)
2. Add the preview URL of your site to the topic or description, e.g.
   https://main–repo–owner.hlx.page
3. Type @FranklinBot info and confirm to invite the AEM Slack bot to your channel and start the setup process.
4. Follow the instructions in the created thread to complete the installation.

Slack Bot Skills

Upload Files

If you have large files that you want to add to a Word or Google Docs document, you can use the Slack bot to upload them. Start a thread with Hey @FranklinBot upload and then drag the files you want to upload into the Slack window.

Currently it is only recommended to upload mp4 files to the slackbot and upload everything else directly from your content source.

The AEM Slack bot will create a URL for each file. You can copy that URL into your document, where it will become an image or embedded video.

Get Page Views

If your site is set up for Real User Monitoring (RUM), you can ask the Slack bot for page view statistics by asking Hey @FranklinBot page views for https://www.example.com

Get Top Pages

If your site is set up for Real User Monitoring (RUM), you can ask the Slack bot for page view statistics by asking Hey @FranklinBot top pages for https://www.example.com

Get Top Tags

If your site is set up for Real User Monitoring (RUM) and is using tags to categorize content, you can ask the Slack bot for tag view statistics by asking Hey @FranklinBot top tags for https://www.example.com

Get Top Images

If your site is set up for Real User Monitoring (RUM), you can ask the Slack bot for image view statistics by asking Hey @FranklinBot top images for https://www.example.com

This also works for single pages that have lots of traffic and can tell you how far people are scrolling on your page.

Get Site Performance

You can ask the Slack bot for page performance statistics by asking Hey @FranklinBot is my site slow? or, optimistically, Hey @FranklinBot is my site fast?

If you have RUM enabled on your site, you will see the performance of the top three pages, as well as Google’s Lighthouse Score for your home page.