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Webhooks for Tasks

Webhooks facilitate automated HTTP notifications to third party applications from Zoho Projects. Webhooks allow you to send real-time data from one application to another whenever an event occurs. Using Webhooks, you can configure your own HTTP URLs and associate them to business rules.To know more about Webhooks, please refer to WebHooks.org
Notes
Feature Availability: Enterprise plan.

Benefits of Webhooks

  1. Automatically update task fields.
  2. Automatically receive a notification of the activities that occurred in Tasks.
  3. Custom email alerts for task updates.

Configure Webhooks

  1. Navigate to  > Automation > Webhooks.
  2. Click Tasks tab and then click Add Webhook.
  3. In Webhooks page, specify all the necessary parameters.
  4. Click Save.


List of Fields in Webhook Configuration

Field Name
Description
Data Type
Constraint
Name

Enter the Webhook name.

            Text
100 characters

URL to notify

Enter the REST API URL of the third-party application.
            URL
1000 characters

Method

Select the type of API method - POST or GET. By default, the POST method is selected.
    Radio button
   -

Append task parameters


  • Append parameters in two ways - either using the standard format or user defined format (xml, json, etc.,).

  • Specify the parameter name. And specify the corresponding parameter value selected from the task fields.

  • These parameters are important for triggering the webhook to the third party.
Text
3000 characters

Append custom parameters


  • Specify the parameter name and the corresponding value for the webhook.

  • This key / value pair is mainly used to send the Authtokens, api key etc.,
Text
3000 characters
Append request headers
This key / value pair is used to define header parameters in your HTTP request.
                Text
3000 characters

Preview URL

Preview the complete webhook URL to notify the third-party application.
       Read-Only
    Read-Only

Notes
Note:
  1. The number of webhooks that can be triggered on a daily basis is limited.
  2. The maximum number of webhooks that can be triggered per day is 2000.
  3. The webhook will be disabled if the webhook call fails more than 20 times a day.
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