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The fledge-notify-google-hangouts plugin allows notifications to be delivered to the Google chat platform. The notification are delivered into a specific chat room within the application, in order to allow access to the chat room you must create a webhook for sending data to that chatroom.

To create a webhook

  • Go to the Google Chat page in your browser

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  • Select the chat room you wish to use or create a new chat room

  • In the menu at the top of the screen select Configure webhooks

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  • Enter a name for your webhook and optional avatar and click Save

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  • Copy the URL that appears under your webhook name, you can use the copy icon next to the URL to place it in the clipboard

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  • Close the webhooks window by clicking outside the window

Once you have created your notification rule and move on to the delivery mechanism

  • Select the Hangouts plugin from the list of plugins

  • Click Next

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  • Now configure the asset delivery plugin

    • Google Hangout Webhook URL: Paste the URL obtain above here

    • Message Text: Enter the message text you wish to send

  • Enable the plugin and click Next

  • Complete your notification setup

A message will be sent to this chat room whenever a notification is triggered.

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