Setting up event notifications from Elbuz

Creating a Telegram Bot to Receive Notifications from Elbuz

• Open a chat in the Telegram program with @BotFather
  
• Click Start
• Send /newbot in chat

💡 You can change the bot name later.
@BotFather will ask you to enter a name for the new bot.
The bot name will be displayed in the contact list and in the chat title.
Come up with a name for your bot and send it to the chat.



⚠️ You will not be able to change the bot username later.
@BotFather will ask you to enter a username for the new bot.
Username should be:

• Unique
• Contains only Latin letters, numbers and the underscore character
• End with the word bot
• Be between 5 and 32 characters

Come up with a username for your bot and send it to the chat



In response you will receive the bot's HTTP API token, copy it into the Elbuz program.



Open Elbuz admin panel > System settings > Access to external API services. Open Telegram store settings by clicking on the "Pencil" icon.

Specify the previously received token and click the "Install web hook" button



After successful connection, open the Telegram program and find your bot by the name you specified when creating the bot, adding the @ symbol at the beginning and click the Start button

After clicking the "Start" button, it should say "Your chat_id" where your personal ID number is indicated, it must be specified in the program, in the Users subsystem

After that, you will receive notifications in Telegram. You can also share a link to your bot with your colleagues. This will allow them to receive a personal ID, which they can specify in the user settings to receive notifications.

Important:

• This is not a general chat, but your personal notification channel. You will not see messages intended for other users.
• This is your organization's personal bot.

You can also connect other types of notifications and mark with a flag which events should be tracked.

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