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
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, to configure Wordbee Translator.
Login to Slack and go to the Administration area. Then click Configure Apps:
Then click Build in the top navigation menu:
On the next screen click Create New App:
A popup opens and you need to give the app a name such as “Wordbee” or whatever you like. Select your Slack workspace and confirm:
You will be redirected to a new page. Click Incoming webhooks in the left and then tick on webhooks in the right hand side as shown below:
Then scroll to the bottom of this page and click Add new Webhook to Workspace:
Another popup opens where you select the channel to which the notifications will be sent to:
Click Allow. On the resulting page you will find the incoming Webhook URL:
Copy the URL to a notepad. We will need it for the Wordbee Translator configuration.
Congratulations you are now half way through the configuration 