Configuring group notifications
Use the group notifications page in WebSked to set the alerts your team receives through Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email when specific actions happen within your Arc XP tools.
Group notifications keep your teams informed about workflow changes and task updates.
You can set notifications at the individual or group levels. For more details, see Setting your notifications section in ???.
As an operations editor of a news organization, you must set up group notifications for breaking news during election day.
Using WebSked's group notifications feature, you create targeted alerts for your politics team that triggers whenever a verification task is created.
You also create a story publish notification that alerts your social media distribution team whenever a new story is available for promotion.
Procedures
To set up notifications for a group, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
In the upper right corner, click your user profile > Groups. The Groups page opens, displaying all your organization groups.
Navigate to the desired group and click View group > Notifications. The Notification page opens.
Click Add notification. The New notification page opens.
Select a notification destination and complete the corresponding fields:
Note
Your administrator must configure WebSked notification integration before you can set a notification destination.
Slack
Time zone - select a time zone from the list.
Integration - select a Slack account from the list.
Channel type - select to send the notification through a Direct message, Public channel, or Private channel.
Username - type the Username/Channel name.
Teams
Time zone - select a time zone from the list.
Team - select an available team from the list.
Channel type - select a channel or a chat.
Channel name - select a Username/Channel name from the list.
Email
Time zone - select a time zone from the list.
Email - enter the user email to send the notification.
Enable HTML content - select to enable rich content in the email notifications.
Webhook
URL - enter the endpoint to post the webhook payload.
Secret - set a secret value for the receiving application to verify that the webhook request comes from WebSked.
Enable JSON payload - select to send data in a structured JSON format.
From the drop-down menu, select a Notification trigger from the following:
Story publish - receive a notification every time one of your stories publishes.
Story deadline - receive notifications when your story deadline approaches.
Task create - receive notifications when WebSked users create tasks for your stories.
Task assign - receive notifications when someone assigns you tasks.
Task claim - receive notifications when another WebSked user claims tasks you created.
Task deadline - receive notifications when your task deadline approaches.
Task complete - receive notifications when someone completes tasks you created.
Platform pitch create - receive notifications when someone pitches your stories to a platform.
Publication pitch create - receive notifications when someone pitches your stories to a publication.
Publication pitch update - receive notifications when your pitch receives any update.
Finalize edition - receive notifications when a publication finalizes its edition in WebSked.
Select at least one of the custom filters, depending on the notification trigger you choose.
Click Add notification.
Your notification becomes available in the main Notifications tab.
To update the notification, navigate to the desired Notification and click Update. The Notification page opens.
Make the necessary changes and click Update.
To clone your new notification, click the Clone 
icon.
To delete a group notification, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
In the upper right corner, click your user profile > Groups. The Groups page opens, displaying all your organization groups.
Navigate to the desired group and click View group > Notifications. The Notification page opens.
Navigate to the desired Notification and click the delete icon
. The Delete notification window opens.Click Delete.
Note
You cannot undo deleting a group notification.