Converting NetCrunch messages into Trello cards
One of the newest features of NetCrunch is integration with external service providers. This article will show you how you can integrate NetCrunch with Trello board so that NetCrunch messages become cards in specific lists.
What is Trello?
Trello is an online process management and collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards, lists and cards.
How can NetCrunch be integrated with Trello:
NetCrunch allows you to create, move and "close" cards in Trello. Such actions can be added to any NetCrunch alert. In this way you can, for example, create a separate Trello board just for all or selected alerts received from NetCrunch, and process them further in Trello as part of your business workflow.
Example of integration with Trello:
Prerequisites:
First, you need to generate a Token and an API key. You can read more about it at: https://developers.trello.com/
Second thing is to create a Board for NetCrunch (it's possible to use the board that already exists) and Lists where the messages from NetCrunch will be added as new cards. (For the purpose of this article two lists will be used).
Additionally, it is mandatory to have a ListID that will be used by NetCrunch. See how you can create a ListId: https://developers.trello.com/get-started/start-building#create
Configuring NetCrunch.
Integration on the NetCrunch side is really simple and it consists of just two steps:
- Create Trello integration profile -
ToolsIntegration Profiles
- Add new profile, select Trello from the application list and enter API Key, Token and ListId in the relevant fields.
Last thing to do is to create an alerting script (or edit an already existing one) to integrate it with Trello.
- Click on: ToolsAlerting & Reporting Alerting Scripts
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Add Alerting Script - Set name and Add Action to Run Immediately
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Select Integrations and choose Trello Card
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Default settings should allow you to create a test card on your board - you can use Test button to check if Profile that was created has the correct information. If the test is successful - Save action.
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Add the next action - select Action to Run on Alert Close
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Select Trello Card from the Integrations' tab, this time set Operation to Mark As Closed and save Action.
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Last thing is to add an action that moves the card to another list (in our case it is the list of Closed Alerts) - to do so, add another action to run On Alert Close and select Move Card to Another List operation.
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Provide the second ListId - of list where card should be moved and save action.
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After all actions are saved, save alerting script and use it in any alert or Monitoring Pack.
After the script had been assigned to alerts, NetCrunch will create and move cards across the specified Trello board in response to events.
