[Done] Get notification about the comment

[Polina_Zenevich]

We have a couple of requests from users, so we decided to share this workaround with you. If anyone has comments, questions, or better ways - please, feel free to share them here on this topic

The content about the comment can be retrieved using script using <% %> inside the notification body

Comment is added:

<%

const fibery = context.getService('fibery');

const entity = await fibery.getEntityById(Entity.Type, Entity.Id, ['Comments']);

const documentSecret = entity.Comments[entity.Comments.length - 1]['Document Secret'];

const commentContent = await fibery.getDocumentContent(documentSecret);

%><%= commentContent%>

And this is how the result looks like

[Polina_Zenevich]

Easier way added ad-hoc, you can check details in this Changelog post

[yala]

What is useful to add here, is that notifications for people assigned to an Entity, if said column exists, can already receive notifications:

Also:

@mdubakov

It is obvious Notifications are not a strong part of Fibery, however, we’ll postpone notifications improvements for some time. In terms of polishing, we will focus on the

• entity view re-design
• permissions
• rich edit field
• table view
• timeline view
• My Space.

I hope we’ll get to notifications eventually, but it’s hard to promise, since they don’t popup on top in our feedback loops.

@Polina_Zenevich

The ability to “follow entity” is in the backlog

And also:

@Polina_Zenevich

Easier way added ad-hoc

It appears this comment refers to the headline Automations: Rich text fields can be used in templates. Is this correct?

Then this is also documented in the headline Using entity fields on

https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Markdown-templates-53/anchor=Using-entity-fields--051b5b02-7c45-4aaa-8a1d-8d0066d402e1

and the headline Using rich text fields

https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Markdown-templates-53/anchor=Using-rich-text-fields--2f28d99c-6af4-4aa8-86eb-1e24a1f06d1e

Here this eventually needs additional logic via JavaScript to fetch the last comment, which is explained under More complex formatting

https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Markdown-templates-53/anchor=More-complex-formatting--6c28d440-c881-4be1-9f93-b11d7be82cd1

There are is also an example for Slack, which uses a similar, “complicated” notation as in the example above.

With all the above taken together, it is not clear to me how a “more easy template” could look like.

@Polina_Zenevich Could you provide an example, about how one can simplify the printing of a comment’s text into a notification, in so it appears similarly as above?