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flowdock - Send a message to a flowdock
Synopsis
- Send a message to a flowdock team inbox or chat using the push API (see https://www.flowdock.com/api/team-inbox and https://www.flowdock.com/api/chat)
 
Options
| parameter | required | default | choices | comments | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| external_user_name | 
      no | 
        
        (chat only - required) Name of the "user" sending the message
         | 
     ||
| from_address | 
      no | 
        
        (inbox only - required) Email address of the message sender
         | 
     ||
| from_name | 
      no | 
        
        (inbox only) Name of the message sender
         | 
     ||
| link | 
      no | 
        
        (inbox only) Link associated with the message. This will be used to link the message subject in Team Inbox.
         | 
     ||
| msg | 
      yes | 
        
        Content of the message
         | 
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| project | 
      no | 
        
        (inbox only) Human readable identifier for more detailed message categorization
         | 
     ||
| reply_to | 
      no | 
        
        (inbox only) Email address for replies
         | 
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| source | 
      no | 
        
        (inbox only - required) Human readable identifier of the application that uses the Flowdock API
         | 
     ||
| subject | 
      no | 
        
        (inbox only - required) Subject line of the message
         | 
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| tags | 
      no | 
        
        tags of the message, separated by commas
         | 
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| token | 
      yes | 
        
        API token.
         | 
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| type | 
      yes | 
       
  | 
      
        
        Whether to post to 'inbox' or 'chat'
         | 
     |
| validate_certs 
        (added in 1.5.1)
         | 
      no | yes | 
       
  | 
      
        
        If  no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
        | 
     
Examples
- flowdock:
    type: inbox
    token: AAAAAA
    from_address: user@example.com
    source: my cool app
    msg: test from ansible
    subject: test subject
- flowdock:
    type: chat
    token: AAAAAA
    external_user_name: testuser
    msg: test from ansible
    tags: tag1,tag2,tag3
  Status
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/flowdock_module.html