This quick tutorial shows how to send notifications from Wordbee Translator into a Slack channel. For example, this permits pushing Slack notifications for newly assigned jobs or orders into a Slack channel.
Two steps are required to get it working:
The initial configuration to do in your Slack account. You will create one or more so-called “incoming web hook URLs”
The Wordbee Translator Web Hook configuration. You define the events to notify, the content. Web hooks call the Slack incoming web hook URLs.
Configuring Slack
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This is a one-time configuration. The objective is to obtain a URL to post notifications into a Slack channel. This URL is needed, in a second step, You will need this URL to configure Wordbee Translator. |
Login Log in to Slack and go to the Administration area. Then click Configure Apps:
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Then click Build in the top navigation menu:
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On the next screen, click Create New App:
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A popup opens and prompting you need to give name the app a name such as “Wordbee” or whatever you like. Select your Slack workspace and confirm:
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You will be redirected to a new page. Click Incoming webhooks in on the left and then tick on webhooks in the right-hand side as shown below:
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Another popup opens where you can select the channel to which the notifications will be sent to:
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Copy the URL to a notepad. We will need it for the Wordbee Translator configuration.Congratulations you are now half way through the configuration 
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Slack is now ready. The next step is to configure Wordbee Translator! |