Get your weekly fundraising brief in Telegram
Keep the fundraising picture close at hand. Notis can turn Blackbaud information it can access into a short brief and send it as a Telegram document.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Send Document
Send general files (documents) to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Fundraising updates are hard to absorb when progress is scattered across records and reports.
- Bring key fundraising context into one weekly artifact.
- Make a brief easier to share in a team chat.
- Cut time spent assembling routine updates.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Blackbaud and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name the weekly brief.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to summarize the Blackbaud fundraising information it can access into a concise document and send it to your Telegram destination.
- 4Choose a notis_cron schedule and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real example and review the document for gaps in the available data.
Questions about this workflow
What information will the brief include?
It can summarize only information Notis can access in Blackbaud. State the topics you want covered and provide any baseline or target that is not present in the records.
Why send a document instead of a message?
A document gives the team a compact artifact they can refer back to, while the schedule keeps the routine update from becoming another manual task.
Can this run daily instead?
Yes. Set the notis_cron trigger to the recurring schedule that fits your review rhythm.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Blackbaud to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Blackbaud 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.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Blackbaud and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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