Keep One Telegram Deployment Message Current
Update a shared status message on a schedule so the team has one place to check.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
Why this helps
Status updates spread across new messages and make it hard to find the latest state.
- Keep a known Telegram bot message current.
- Reduce repeated status posts in the chat.
- Make the latest returned deployment state easy to locate.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Appveyor and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or describe the outcome from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to check the relevant Appveyor deployment and edit an existing Telegram bot message with the returned status.
- 4Choose notis_cron as the trigger and set the update schedule.
- 5Choose a report channel and test with one real status update and an existing editable bot message.
Questions about this workflow
Can this edit any Telegram message?
The listed action edits text messages sent by the bot. Set up and identify an existing bot message that can be edited.
What if the status does not change?
The automation can refresh the message with the latest returned status. It should avoid claiming a change when the returned status is unchanged or unavailable.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Appveyor to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Appveyor triggers
Telegram actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Answer Callback Query
Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Delete Message
Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
Export Chat Invite Link
Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.
Forward Message
Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.
Get Chat Info
Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).
Get Chat Administrators
Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.
Get Chat History
Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.
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