Turn failed Appveyor builds into Slack follow-up reminders
Keep a failure from disappearing into chat by setting a reminder to return to it at the right time.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Create a reminder
Creates a slack reminder with specified text and time; time accepts unix timestamps, seconds from now, or natural language (e.g., 'in 15 minutes', 'every thursday at 2pm').
Why this helps
A build failure may need a later check, but remembering to revisit it competes with the next urgent task.
- Put a follow-up back on the team's radar.
- Use the reminder time and text provided with the webhook request.
- Reduce the chance that an unresolved failure is forgotten.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Appveyor and Slack once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation from any channel, or in Automations, choose New Automation and enter a name and prompt.
- 3Tell Notis to create a Slack reminder from failed build events that include a follow-up time and reminder text.
- 4Choose the Notis webhook trigger, then select where run reports should go.
- 5Test it with one real failure event that supplies a reminder time.
Questions about this workflow
Does the reminder time come from Appveyor automatically?
This workflow requires the webhook request to include a usable reminder time and reminder text. Supply them if Appveyor does not return them.
What happens when no follow-up time is provided?
The reminder action requires a time. The automation should skip creating a reminder when the request has no usable time.
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