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See stale Backendless records in a Slack digest

Get a scheduled summary of returned records that meet your criteria, so follow-up is easier to plan.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Post message to channel

Deprecated: posts a message to a slack channel, direct message, or private channel. use `send message` instead.

Why this helps

Finding records that have not moved can take repeated manual checks and make follow-up easy to miss.

  • Review matching records on a predictable cadence.
  • See returned record context in a single Slack update.
  • Reduce repeated manual checks of Backendless data.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Backendless and Slack to Notis once.
  • 2Create an automation and describe the stale-record criteria using fields Backendless actually returns.
  • 3Tell Notis to query matching Backendless records on schedule and post a concise digest of the returned records to Slack.
  • 4Choose a Notis cron trigger and select where run reports should go.
  • 5Run one scheduled example and confirm the returned records are summarized correctly.

Questions about this workflow

How does Notis know what counts as stale?

State the criteria in your prompt using Backendless data fields available to the connected query. Supply a threshold if the data does not contain one.

Will the digest include every record?

Ask for a concise digest and define a useful limit or grouping in the prompt; Notis can only summarize records returned by the Backendless query.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Backendless to Slack. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Backendless triggers

Slack actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Set snooze duration

Deprecated: turns on do not disturb mode for the current user, or changes its duration. use `set dnd duration` instead.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Add a custom emoji to a Slack team

Deprecated: adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url. use `add emoji` instead.

ActionInstant

Add an emoji alias

Adds an alias for an existing custom emoji in a slack enterprise grid organization.

ActionInstant

Add a remote file

Adds a reference to an external file (e.g., google drive, dropbox) to slack for discovery and sharing, requiring a unique `external id` and an `external url` accessible by slack.

ActionInstant

Add a star to an item

Stars a channel, file, file comment, or a specific message in slack.

ActionInstant

Add call participants

Registers new participants added to a slack call.

ActionInstant

Add emoji

Adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url; subject to workspace emoji limits.

ActionInstant

Add reaction to message

Adds a specified emoji reaction to an existing message in a slack channel, identified by its timestamp; does not remove or retrieve reactions.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Backendless and Slack, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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