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The well-known application Slack is primarily used for instant messaging and sharing memes. However, according to the people who make it, Slack is "... a messaging app for business that connects people to the information that they need".
For instrument staff at a scientific facility that information might be the current state of hardware; statuses of various data acquisition services; or outputs from data processing. Furthermore, having access to this information on desktop and/or mobile clients is desirable for instrument staff who may be in the lab; at their desk; or off-site, away from the facility.
At Diamond, we have recently developed and deployed a Slack app which aims to provide some on-demand high-level information to beamline staff. This data is sourced from various services and attempts to connect beamline staff with the information they need (or in some cases, want).
Here we present some of the design architecture we have chosen to adopt, how we have implemented this functionality; and present plenty of examples of the kind of information that we have made accessible.
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