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Global teams mean someone's working at any given minute—but it also means someone's offline, too. Here's how to keep your status up to date automatically.

How to automatically update your Slack status

Want to set your Slack status every morning when you start work, or every evening when you're out for the day? Zapier can do that for you. Just add the time you want this Zap to run—and choose whether it should run on weekends, too—then put your standard Slack status. Zapier will set it for you every day! Learn more in our 

Schedule is a native Zapier app you can use for recurring tasks. Trigger an action every day of the month, every day of the week or every single day. You can also select the hour of the day. If you're a developer, this is similar to a crontab, cronjob or cron.

Schedule by Zapier

Triggers at user-defined intervals (days, weeks, months)

Custom Frequency

Every Day

Every Hour

Triggers every month, on the day(s) selected.

Every Month

Triggers every week, on the day(s) selected.

Every Week

Slack is a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. Offering instant messaging, document sharing and knowledge search for modern teams.

Triggers when a new message is posted to any public channel.

New Public Message Posted Anywhere

New Channel

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #channel you choose.

New Message Posted to Channel

Triggers when a custom emoji has been added to a team.

New Team Custom Emoji

Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your workspace.

New File

Triggers when a username or highlight word is mentioned in a public #channel.

New Mention

Triggers when a new message is found that matches the query.

New Message From Query

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #private-channel or multi-dm.

New Message Posted to Private Channel

Triggers when a Message is pushed from Slack.

New Pushed Message

Triggers when a reaction (aka reactji) is added to a message in a public #channel.

New Reaction Added

New Saved Message

Triggers when a new Slack user is created / first joins your org.

New User

Finds a Slack message using the Slack Search feature.

Find Message

Finds a user by matching against their email instead of their username.

Find User by Email

Find User by ID

Finds a user by matching against their real name instead of their username.

Find User by Name

Find User by Username

Adds a reminder for yourself or a teammate, just like the `/remind` slash command.

Add Reminder

Invite an existing User to an existing Channel. You must be a member of the channel to invite someone to it.

Invite User to Channel

Posts a message to the specific #channel you choose. Message delivery can be scheduled for later.

Send Channel Message

Sends a direct message to a user or yourself from the Slackbot. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Direct Message

Create Channel

Post a new message to a private channel you choose. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Private Channel Message

Set Channel Topic

Update basic profile fields such as name or title

Update Profile

Sets your Slack status to the given text and emoji.

Set Status

Invite a new User to your Slack workspace. Uses legacy tokens.

Invite New User

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Set Slack status on an automatic daily schedule

Knowing your schedule in advance won't save you any time manually setting your status, but this integration will. Automatically set your Slack status to a given text and emoji every week with Schedule by Zapier. Just choose what day of the week. Keep your teams up to date without a single added click.

Set Slack status with new weeks in Schedule by Zapier

Sometimes there's no time to let the team know you're busy during back to back calls. Zapier can help ensure your Slack status is up to date during your next meeting—or whatever event—once you set up this automation. From then on, Zapier will set your Slack status to indicate you're busy 5 minutes before the Google Calendar event starts, and clear the status once it ends, saving you from the trouble of awkwardly trying to tell the team you can't get back to them at the moment.  

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with co-workers and friends. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

Google Calendar

New Calendar

Triggers when an event is cancelled or deleted.

Event Cancelled

Event Ended

Triggers when a specified amount of time before an event starts.

Event Start

Triggers when an event is created or updated (except when it's cancelled).

New or Updated Event

New Event

Triggers when an event is created that matches a search.

New Event Matching Search

Find Event

Finds a specific event by its ID in your calendar.

Retrieve Event by ID

Finds multiple events in your calendar as line items.

Find Multiple Events

Find or Create Event

Invites one or more person to an existing event.

Add Attendee(s) to Event

Create Calendar

Delete Event

Create Detailed Event

Create an event from a piece of text. Google parses the text for date, time, and description info.

Quick Add Event

Updates an event. Only filled fields are updated.

Update Event

Update Slack status during new Google Calendar events

Your Slack team should know your schedule, but sharing calendars and sending email updates takes time that's better spent elsewhere. This integration lets you stay focused, automatically setting your Slack status at a specified time before an event in your Microsoft Outlook calendar starts. Keep your team in the loop with instant, effortless updates!

Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

Microsoft Outlook

Triggers at a specified time before an event in your calendar starts.

Calendar Event Start

Cancelled Calendar Event

New Attachment

Triggers when a new event is created in your calendar.

New Calendar Event

Triggers when a new contact is added to your account

New Contact

Triggers when a new e-mail is received in your inbox.

New Email

Triggers when a new e-mail is received in your inbox that matches a search.

New Email Matching Search

New Flagged Email

Triggers when a new new message in folder is created.

New Message in Folder

Updated Calendar Event

Find Calendar Event

Find a Contact

Find Email

Find or Create Contact

Add Attendees to Calendar Event

Create an event in the calendar of your choice.

Create Event

Create Contact

Creates a draft of an email that can then be reviewed and sent out.

Create Draft Email

Create Draft Reply

Creates a new reply to email, probably with input from previous steps.

Reply to Email

Send Email

Update Calendar Event

Update Contact

Create new status updates in Slack with Microsoft Outlook calendar events

If you want to easily keep track of meeting in Zoom, Zapier can help. This integration allows you to get automatically notified in Slack every time a new Zoom meeting is created. 

Zoom brings teams together to get more done in a frictionless environment. Zoom's reliable, video-first unified communications platform provides video meetings, voice, webinars, and chat across desktops, phones, mobile devices, and conference systems

Zoom

Triggers when every time a meeting host ends the meeting.

New Meeting Ended

Triggers when a summary is available for a meeting. Note: you must be the meeting host.

New Meeting Summary

Triggers when a new audio transcript has been completed after a meeting or webinar you hosted completes.

New Audio Transcript

Triggers when a new participant joins a webinar or meeting.

New Participant Joined Webinar or Meeting

Triggers when a new Meeting or Webinar is created.

New Meeting

Triggers when a new registrant is added to a meeting.

New Meeting Registrant

Triggers when a new Cloud Recording is completed for a Meeting or Webinar.

New Cloud Recording

Triggers when a new registrant is added to a Webinar.

New Webinar Registrant

Finds a find meeting/webinar based on id or topic name.

Find Meeting/Webinar

Find Recording and Download

Get Meeting Summary

Retrieve the list of participants (as line items) for a given meeting or webinar, up to 3000 participants.

Retrieve Meeting or Webinar Participants

Creates a new Zoom Meeting. (Options not available here will default to user/account Zoom settings.)

Create Meeting

Create Meeting Registrant

Create Webinar Registrant

Deletes all recordings for a specified meeting, with an option to move them to trash or permanently delete them.

Delete Meeting Recordings

Get Slack notifications for new Zoom meetings

Want a quick way to update your Slack status? This Zap can help. Set it up, then  just press the button in Chrome, add what you're doing, and Zapier will automatically set your Slack status for you. Learn more in our 

Run workflows right from your browser. Include the URL & Title of the current page or add fields to include any other data you want to use in your Zap.

Zapier Chrome extension

When you trigger this Zap from the Zapier Chrome extension, by default it will include the website’s title, URL, timestamp, and who triggered the Zap. You can add additional Input Fields if you’d like to include more information.

New Push

After triggering a Zap via the Chrome extension, you can return the results and display them right in the extension.

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