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Create a Slack or Microsoft Teams incoming webhook for yourself, add it on My profile, and send a test, so your notifications arrive in your own channel.

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Your notifications can come to a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel of your own, as well as or instead of the app and email. You set it up yourself, in two steps on My profile: first create an incoming webhook in Slack or Teams, then paste its URL into CapitolMath and send a test. No Webhooks permission is needed.

What's posted is only what the bell shows you: the bill, hearing or item each notification is about. It's yours, not your organization's: it isn't listed among your organization's webhooks or counted against its plan, and it's removed if you leave the organization.

Create an incoming webhook in Slack#

  1. Choose or create the channel you want notifications in. A private channel with only you in it keeps them to yourself.
  2. In a browser, go to api.slack.com/apps, sign in to your workspace, and select Create New App, then From scratch.
  3. Name it (for example, CapitolMath notifications), choose your workspace, and select Create App.
  4. Under Features, select Incoming Webhooks and turn on Activate Incoming Webhooks.
  5. Select Add New Webhook to Workspace, choose your channel, and select Allow.
  6. Copy the Webhook URL. It starts https://hooks.slack.com/services/.

Some workspaces need an administrator to approve a new app. If yours does, Slack says so at step 5 and sends them a request.

Create an incoming webhook in Microsoft Teams#

  1. In Teams, go to the channel you want notifications in.
  2. Select the channel's More options (…), then Workflows.
  3. Choose the template Post to a channel when a webhook request is received.
  4. Name the workflow, check the team and channel, and select Add workflow.
  5. Copy the URL Teams shows when it's done.

A Teams URL is accepted on webhook.office.com, logic.azure.com, powerplatform.com or outlook.office.com. If your organization still offers the older Incoming Webhook connector, its URL works too.

Add it to CapitolMath#

  1. Open My profile and find Want to receive notifications via Slack or Teams?
  2. Choose Slack or Teams, paste the URL, and select Save.
  3. Select Send a test. When the test appears in your channel, it's live.
  4. In the Notifications grid above it, tick Slack or Teams for each notification you want there.

The URL works like a password for posting to your channel, so CapitolMath never shows it again in full. Use Change to replace it, or Remove to stop.

If it stops arriving#

If your channel stops accepting messages (the webhook was deleted, or the app removed), CapitolMath retries for about a day and emails you. Your notifications are still in the app meanwhile. Create a new incoming webhook, paste its URL on My profile, and send a test.

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