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I like how FogBugz lets you subscribe to cases so you can stay in the loop via email notifications. Does Kiln let you "subscribe" to repositories and receive email notifications whenever someone changes something?

Fog Creek Case FC1980936

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closed as no longer relevant by Kevin Gessner♦♦ Mar 14 at 17:07

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Email

In Kiln 3, you can receive an email whenever new changesets are pushed to a repository. Click "Subscribe" at the top of any repository.

Subscribe

RSS Feeds

The best way to get alerts about changes in a Kiln repo is to subscribe to the RSS feed:

  1. Click the Kiln tab
  2. Click Activity
  3. Click on Filter and select "Show Activity In" -> "Only certain repositories" and select the repo you want to monitor
  4. Click the RSS button in the upper right corner, copy the URL, and paste it into any RSS reader
  5. (Optional) Save your filter

Web Hooks

It is also possible to use Kiln's Web Hooks for this solution. You'd need a custom email script that is triggered by a URL somewhere.

Web Hooks will let you trigger this script every time code is pushed...and you can parse the incoming JSON payload to send mail with any information that you want.

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 Thank you for the answer Rob. I think the key is for it to be simple. Yes you can go and set this up for each user, but it's a total pain. Keeping it simple is the idea. I'd love it if the email would also contain a Diff between the last and current checkin. This is my absolute favorite feature of Beanstalk (I'm a recent Kiln convert). This way, I can stay on top of each check-in as it occurs and review the changes on my phone instantly. – Joseph Schwendt Feb 28 2011 at 21:08
I'd personally love to see email notifications implemented with the similar flexibility of Webhooks, where the content of the email can be chosen. – Michael360 Mar 16 2011 at 19:53
surprised Kiln doesn't already have email notifications, email being so integral in FogBugz. – Quang Jun 18 2011 at 3:34
I wrote a webhook in PHP which emails the person who pushes changes (and does other stuff) with the commit message as a hyperlink to the kiln changeset screen. The only cost is having a web server around waiting for the webhook call. – jeff Nov 15 2011 at 18:30

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