Phabricator/Help/Herald Rules
Please note that global Herald rules slow down Phabricator performance for all users (see phab:T108586) and can often be avoided by using one of these specialised methods instead:
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Creating Herald rules for notifications
editCurrently restricted to members of the groups #Trusted-Contributors, #WMF-NDA, acl*Batch-Editors, and Phabricator admins.
This is how you create custom (personal) notification rules in Wikimedia Phabricator's Herald. Imagine you want to watch all the tasks that are being created:
- Click
Create Herald Rule
. - Select
Maniphest Tasks
andPersonal
. - Give a descriptive name to the rule, i.e. "All New Tasks".
- In
Conditions
, selectall of
,Is newly created?
, andis True
. - In
Action
, selectevery time
andSend me an email
. Save Rule
.
This is it. From that point, you will receive an email for every task being created. This is probably too much, though. This is how you can filter these notifications:
- If you want to be notified about new tasks only in specific projects, add a
New Condition
, and then selectProjects
andinclude any of
, adding the projects you are interested about. - If you want to be notified about new tasks only from specific users, add a
New Condition
, and then selectAuthor
andis any of
, adding the users you are interested about.
You see where is this going. Adapting these rules you can watch the entire activity of a specific project without having to join it, you can watch certain keywords across the entire Phabricator, etc.
Global Herald rules
editTo create global Herald rules (rules unrelated to your personal account, like adding a project to a task when another project is added), create a task in Phabricator describing your request. If the request is not completed within a reasonable amount of time, contact one of the Phabricator admins (preferably User:AKlapper (WMF)).