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How can I trigger a notification only when a branch is merged?

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burke livingston

18 Mar, 2019 07:50 AM

I have a notification configured only to fire for a certain branch, however it seems that pull requests against that branch also trigger the notification. Is it possible to only send the notification when the pull request is merged?

Config Excerpt:

branches:
    only:
      - development




notifications:
    - provider: Slack
      incoming_webhook: https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxxxxxxxxx
      on_build_success: true
      on_build_failure: false
      template: >-
        {{#jobs}}
        {{#artifacts}}
        <{{url}}|Build {{buildVersion}}>
        {{/artifacts}}
        {{/jobs}}

    &lt;{{buildUrl}}|Appveyor&gt; &lt;{{commitUrl}}|Github&gt;</code>

1. 1 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 18 Mar, 2019 07:27 PM

   

   Hi Burke,

   We have no option to filter notification by PR. But what you can do is instead of built-in notification write a simple script based on slack REST API (sample) and run it only if APPVEYOR_PULL_REQUEST_TITLE environment variable is not set AND APPVEYOR_REPO_BRANCH is development. Run it on_finish

   Something like this:

   on_finish:
   - ps: if ((-not $env:APPVEYOR_PULL_REQUEST_TITLE) -and ($env:APPVEYOR_REPO_BRANCH -eq "development")) {.\notifySlack.ps1}
   

   For Slack notification script you can also use environment variables. And sure use secure variable for Slack token.

   Ilya.

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2. 2 Posted by burke livingsto... on 19 Mar, 2019 07:14 AM

   

   Hi Ilya,
   This was very helpful. Thank you for your quick reply.

   • Burke
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3. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 19 Mar, 2019 04:59 PM.