Ruud Mestrom: The team is looking into expanding this functionality actively!

Brendan W Isn't this already available now?

Ruud no, it’s not. You can import as a new chat inside a list, but you cannot import into an existing native ClickUp Chat (that is, a Chat , not a chat View in a list).

Jackson James Maybe I'm on a beta, but just tried to run an import. I have the following options:

Ruud Mestrom Jackson James

Ruud is correct! You can now import into existing Channels (and we dedupe messages already imported), but we're working on a few more improvements before calling this done!

Brendan W are the Slack comments “mixed in” in chronological order?

And is there any visual indicator that a comment was from Slack (either a tiny Slack logo, or a simple “from Slack” next to the timestamp of the imported comment)?

Jackson James no logo AFAIK. And it is merged on timestamps indeed, so chronological. Try it with a dummy channel �

Jackson James: Any comments you import will be visible in ClickUp matching the order from Slack. If importing into an existing Channel with its own messages inside ClickUp, or one you already imported into, we still respect the chronological order, yes.

No visual indicator that it's from Slack. Can you clarify why you're requesting that?

Brendan a newly imported Slack channel creates a new dump of data in ClickUp Chats - data that newer Workspace members in ClickUp may never have seen before, nor been aware of.

Ultimately, it helps workspace users understand context of the “new” data they’re seeing (messages, comments, screenshots, etc.), and helps keep accurate audit trails.

Can a “via Slack” indicator please be appended to the timestamp of imported Slack channel messages?

Jackson James you could use AI or a script to add it to the source files before importing.

Ruud ClickUp’s Slack importer doesn’t provide an option to customise the import script for how Slack messages are imported into a ClickUp chat.

Not sure what you’re referring to.

Jackson James if you do the API route indeed that doesn't work. If you do the file route (export from slack) you could adjust the source files.

Ruud I’m talking about using the Slack Import tool in ClickUp (the API route). Unable to customise anything

Jackson James indeed. I was just pointing the other route you have DYI options.

Jackson James: This isn't something we'll be adding right now (in fact, it's something Slack doesn't even do, for instance).

Any user who is navigating to a Channel they haven't seen before is going to have to understand the context, regardless of whether that message was natively sent in ClickUp or imported! I'd recommend sharing with your team members that you're doing Slack imports etc.

Russell Saks: Hey, there! Are you looking for Slack Connect?

Brendan W basically a way to have a live feed of slack chat pushing to clickup - need a way to have external connections push

Russell Saks: Not right now, but we're thinking about it!

Any update on this Brendan W Zach - ClickUp Caroline Ginty?

Although I know importing is not done via API, I can see the infrastructure for targeting an existing chat as the destination for a Slack import is there...

Surely this isn't too big of an iteration on the current import feature?

Jackson James Hey! We're hoping to accomplish this in the first half of the year, by improving our options of the Slack import - stay tuned!

cc. Lily Chan

Brendan W I really would love to see something to happen here after so many months as my Slack subscription renews in May – and I would love to be able to save several thousand Euros by actually moving my company messaging from Slack to ClickUp lol

It is in your interest (and in the interest of an amazing working ClickUp BrAIn) that ClickUp users really can get their work done in just one system (ClickUp).

I would even be willing to move from Slack to ClickUp Chat before you even have a native desktop chat app; but a reliable import of existing chat data is definitely a must

Sven Zimmermann: You're specifically blocked by needing to import an in-use Slack Channel to an existing List's Channel or standalone Channel in ClickUp? Any other blockers?

Brendan W no, I really just want to import a Slack-channel into a ClickUp Chat standalone (!) channel. That is what I need.

There are some people on my team who want to stay in Slack for whatever reasons and it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to convince them for ClickUp Chat if the transition doesn't work smoothly.

Many of my teammates do not understand the ClickUp Chat "list channels" logic at all, so it would be very helpful if I could transfer existing Slack channels 1:1 into ClickUp Chat.

Thank you so much for your consideration!

Sven Zimmermann You are already able to import Slack Channels as locationless Channels through our Slack Importer :)

Brendan W I think the issue is that we want to be able to import the chat history directly into the channel of the corresponding Space/Folder/List, to preserve chat history.

The way it is now, it's in a separate list in that space. Which means that there is now the new channel and this parallel imported one.

For instance, if we have a folder for each of our clients, that folder itself has a channel. We import the client's Slack history and that is now a channel in a list. So we have to tell the team (and hope they remember/listen) to use the import channel and not the one tied to the Client Folder.