Refresh Appveyor environments when plans change
Keep deployment planning aligned with the latest calendar change and the environments available today.
Trigger
Calendar Event Changes
Triggered when a new calendar event occurs (created, updated, or deleted) in the Outlook calendar.
Action
Get Environments
Tool to get a list of all deployment environments. use when you need to enumerate available environments before creating deployments.
Why this helps
Release plans move in the calendar, while environment details remain in a separate CI system.
- Reduce last-minute environment surprises
- Pair schedule changes with deployment context
- Give meetings a ready planning brief
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Outlook and Appveyor to Notis once.
- 2Create an automation for calendar-driven environment review.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve all Appveyor environments and summarize the ones relevant to the changed event.
- 4Choose Calendar Event Changes as the trigger and select a report destination.
- 5Test with one changed release or planning event.
Questions about this workflow
Which calendar changes trigger it?
Created, updated, or deleted events in the connected Outlook calendar.
Does Notis know which environment the event needs?
Only if the event or your instruction provides enough context; otherwise it reports the full environment list for review.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Outlook to Appveyor. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Outlook triggers
Appveyor actions
Recurring trigger
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
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