Developer sandboxes for Enterprise org testing
What a Slack developer sandbox is: a free Enterprise org environment from the Slack Developer Program, basic versus full-featured eligibility, the six-month lifespan with extension, archive and grace period, and the user, Slack Connect, distribution and Discovery API limits to plan around.
Describe the characteristics of an Enterprise Grid Sandbox.
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What the exam expects
- Describe a developer sandbox: an Enterprise org environment, provisioned free through the Slack Developer Program, for development and testing only.
- Tell basic from full-featured sandboxes and who qualifies for each (paid plan or a payment method that is not charged).
- Explain the lifecycle: six-month default lifespan, extension while eligible, the 30-day reminder, archive, three-month grace period and deletion.
- Plan around the limits: eight users excluding bots, two guests, Slack Connect only between sandboxes (three teams), no third-party distribution, Discovery API only for partners.
- Explain why a sandbox has no access to production data, even on the same email domain.
Key terms: developer sandbox (a free Enterprise org environment from the Slack Developer Program); basic sandbox (the version every member gets, with stricter limits); partner sandbox (the Slack Partner Developer Program's equivalent); archived (a sandbox past its lifespan that nobody can access); grace period (three months after archiving when data is kept and the sandbox can be unarchived).
Key facts
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- An Enterprise org environment, free, from the Slack Developer Program
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- Paid plan member (workspace 30+ days old) or a payment method, not charged
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- Six months; one month for basic sandboxes
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- No guests, Slack Connect, ROSI hosted functions, coded workflows or datastores
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- Email 30 days before the lifespan ends
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- Three months after archiving, then automatic deletion
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- Eight per sandbox, owners and admins included, bots and apps excluded
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- Only between sandboxes, max three teams; none in basic sandboxes
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- Cannot distribute third-party apps and workflows
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- Partner program only
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- No connection to workspaces sharing the domain
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- Slack Partner Developer Program partner sandboxes
- Why does a sandbox suit testing an app's behaviour in multi-workspace channels?
- When is an archived sandbox deleted?
- Which developers can unlock full sandbox features without being charged?
- When can a developer test the Discovery API in a sandbox?
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