

Streamlined business apps Build easy-to-navigate business apps in minutes.Integrations Work smarter and more efficiently by sharing information across platforms.Secure request management Streamline requests, process ticketing, and more.Process management at scale Deliver consistent projects and processes at scale.Content management Organize, manage, and review content production.Workflow automation Quickly automate repetitive tasks and processes.Team collaboration Connect everyone on one collaborative platform.Smartsheet platform Learn how the Smartsheet platform for dynamic work offers a robust set of capabilities to empower everyone to manage projects, automate workflows, and rapidly build solutions at scale.You can now call the chatbot using !name in a campfire, or by pinging the chatbot directly. The example below listens on port 8000, and responds to the command hello. There is a little extra complexity with setting up an interactive chatbot as you are required to use an https endpoint (which means that you will need to configure SSL). Here is some example code that uses the standard https module.

To do so, go to any campfire and add /integrations to the url.Ĭlicking Add a new chatbot will then take you to a page where you can give the chatbot a name, avatar, and (optional) https endpoint to send commands.Ĭhatbots work both ways – you can have them automatically send messages to campfires (but not pings) such as when a critical service goes down, or you can make them interactive and have them answer to specific commands from a campfire or direct ping. To get started you need to create a chatbot within Basecamp. The Basecamp API documentation is on GitHub and there is also a page specifically for chatbots if you would like to build your own.

You need to be an administrator on your account to create a chatbot.

I won’t go into detail about the Bitbucket side of things (it’s a bit of a niche use case!), but I will show you how easy it was to connect this up to Basecamp. I recently created one to call the Bitbucket API, allowing us to configure branch permissions on repositories from within Basecamp. Making a Simple Basecamp Chatbot with NodeJSĬreating a chatbot is a fun way to integrate external tool functionality within Basecamp. He oversees the BuildVu product strategy and roadmap in addition to spending lots of time writing code. Leon Atherton Leon is a developer at IDRsolutions and product manager for BuildVu.
