Check available deployment environments in the release conversation
When a release discussion starts, ask Notis in Telegram for the Appveyor environment list and keep the context together.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
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
A release conversation can stall while someone leaves the thread to check which deployment environments are available.
- Retrieve the available environments without leaving Telegram.
- Give the release conversation a shared reference point.
- Avoid relying on memory when discussing deployment destinations.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Appveyor to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create an automation through the portal or by asking Notis conversationally.
- 3Describe one instruction to retrieve and summarize Appveyor deployment environments when requested.
- 4Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and select a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with a Telegram request for the available deployment environments.
Questions about this workflow
Does the workflow deploy anything?
No. It only retrieves the environment list from Appveyor.
When is this useful?
Use it when planning a release or helping teammates confirm which deployment environments are available.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Appveyor. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Appveyor actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Build Artifacts
Tool to get the list of artifacts for a specific build job. use when you need to retrieve artifacts after a job completes.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Environments
Tool to get a list of all deployment environments. use when you need to enumerate available environments before creating deployments.
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Get Projects
Tool to get a list of all projects for the authenticated account. use after authentication to enumerate available projects.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Get Role
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Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Get Roles
Tool to retrieve all roles in the account. use when you need to enumerate available roles before assigning permissions.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
Get Users
Tool to retrieve all users in the account. use when you need to list all team users in your appveyor account.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Appveyor, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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