This plugin provides a notification task to send Slack messages to channels or direct messages. It's based on Incoming Webhooks integration, which provides a URL within an authorization token ready to POST messages.
See Slack Incoming Webhooks documentation for background information on post messages from external sources into Slack.
Before to use Slack notification task, it's needed to setup a Slack server definition within the following information:
- Title: Name of the Slack server definition.
- Slack URL: Tokenized URL provided by the Incoming WebHook integration.
- User name: Name to use in the notifications.
- User icon: Icon to use in the notifications, it should be a icon emoji, e.g.
:ghost:. - Proxy URL: Proxy URL to use in format
http://username:password@proxyurl:proxyport, leave it in blank if isn't required.
The Slack notification task needs the next information:
- Server: The Slack server definition to use.
- Channel: The target for the notification, use
#or@to refer to a channel or direct message. - Message: The notification message text, it could be formatted.