Streamline Notification with Properties in 'Fixed' Selectors

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AnthillPro notification schemes are made up of three pieces. A template for the email (or IM) to go out, an event selector to determine when to notify, and a recipient generator that chooses who to mail to. The simplest form of recipient generator is the "Fixed" kind that just notifies some list of fixed addresses.

In 3.7, we loosened the definition of "Fixed" by allowing the values in the selector to reference properties. This has some interesting effects. For instance, we can create a selector that mails existing team mailing lists that adapts itself to each project. The selector might be configured to mail ${property:mailing-list}@mycompany.com. If my project has a "mailing-list" property set to myProjectTeam the notification will go to myProjectTeam@mycompany.com. Likewise, we could create a "team lead" property on each project for a scheme that emails the team lead on every failure.


Re: Streamline Notification with Properties in 'Fixed' Selectors

Thank you for adding this! Lots of stuff in 3.7 that I'm looking forward to using.

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