FabMan is awesome and has a lot of potential in it´s API/webhooks. Hoewever, not everybody is a web developer that knows how to use the API/webhooks for external purposes.
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In our FabLab, we used to have internal web develeper, who was able to make all sorts of useful stuff. He is unfortunately not active in our lab anymore. We recently started a new Discord server, and we wanted to create a integration that could read FabMan´s webhook and through Discord bot send a messeage when a machine is disabled. We are not able to do that unfortunately.
That sort of thing is quite easy with services like PowerAutomate or Zapier. We actualy used Zapier for this exact thing with Mailchimp newsletter service (Mailchimp sends a info that a new newsletter is out, and Discord bot send messeage in channel with a link).
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So please, would it be possible to integrate it? It´s free for you, and I can imagine a lot of not only labs but also other institutions using FabMan would benefit from this.
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Hey Jan,
thank you for the suggestion. I’ll look into what would be required to offer Zapier integration in the future.
Best regards,
Raphael