Slack notifications with more context.

kraig68726

Hi,

I have just set up my sheet to send slack notifications whenever the status of a task is changed. So for example I have two columns, one is for tasks and the other is status (of the tasks). So an example would be:



"World domination" I "In Progress"



Now say I conqure planet earth and want to move on to building my evil Moon base in preparation for galactic expansion, I would update it it so it now says:



"World domination" I "Complete"



So now my henchmen / minions will all get notified on Slack because I've set it up so that changing the Status cell from "Not started" to "Complete" sends an immediate notification.



The problem is that I only get a notification saying:



"Status"

"Complete"

But the issue here is that there is no context to what has actually been completed and with over a 100 tasks on my sheet, it's not providing much help.



Thanks in advance

Alejandra

Hi,

Thanks for brightening my day with your humor! Alerts will provide different information based on whether one or multiple rows have been added or updated. I tested this on my end and received a notification that includes the task name when a single row was added or updated.

If you’re updating single rows and only receive “Status Complete”, then it would help to see how you’ve set up your alert and whether or not “World domination” resides in the Primary Column (like mine does). If needed, more information on this can be found in our help article: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/2476711-smartsheet-slack-notification#appearance