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Version: Release 23.1

Notification Tasks

Notification task types are used to prepare emails and notify the recipients automatically when a task is active. It's an automated task that completes by itself or fails when the email cannot be sent. Release advances to the following task when the notification task is completed.

For detailed information about the contents of the task, see Task Drawer for Tasks.

Notification task

The input properties of the Notification task are as follows:

OptionDescription
FromThe email address from which the email is sent
To*A list of email addresses where the message will be sent
CCA list of email addresses that receive the message as CC
BCCA list of email addresses that receive the message as BCC
BCCA list of email addresses that receive the message as BCC
Reply toA email address of the reply message recipient
Mail priorityThe priority of the email. Select one of the options from the drop-down list:
  • Low
  • Normal
  • High
Subject*The subject of the message
Body*The message body, in markdown format
UsernameThe SMTP server username of the message sender
PasswordThe SMTP server password of the message sender

Click a field to edit it. You can use variables in the fields. In the Overview tab of the Notification task, you can add tags to your Notification task in the Task Tags field for filtering. In the release flow editor, Notification tasks are marked with gray border.