Slack connector overview

The following table gives an overview of the Amazon Q Business Slack connector and its supported features.

Category	Feature	Support
Security	Authentication type	Token based authentication
	Authentication credentials	Slack workspace ID Either Slack Bot token or User token User token lets you make API requests on behalf of the user. Bot token lets you make API requests as a Slack bot.
	Access Control List (ACL) crawling	Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
	Identity crawling	Yes
	VPC	Yes
Crawl features	Custom metadata	No
	Entities	Yes. The following entities are supported: Public channels Private channels Group messages Private messages Bot messages Archived messages See What is a document? for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.
	Field mappings	Yes. Supports default and custom field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
	Filters	Yes. The following filters are supported: Crawl public channel Crawl private channel Crawl group messages Crawl private messages Crawl channel by type Crawl channel by name Including and excluding content by file type Including and excluding content based on file name
	Sync mode	Supports full and incremental sync.
	File types	Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.
	Crawled as a document	Each message Each message attachment Each channel post