How to add or remove recipient types from plan and deployment project notifications in Bamboo

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Summary

Notifications in Bamboo are triggered by a range of events involving a plan and its jobs or deployment project. Plan and deployment project administrators have the option to control what will be in the recipient type list when configuring a notification for a plan. This article shows how to add or remove recipient types from plan and deployment project notifications.

Environment

The solution in this article has been tested on version 8.1.2 but may work with other versions of Bamboo

Solution

The default recipient types list are:

  1. Email.

  2. IM Address.

  3. User.

  4. Group.

  5. Committer.

  6. Watcher.

  7. Webhook.

Use the following steps to control the recipient type list:

  1. Click the icon

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    in the Bamboo header and choose Overview.

  2. Click Manage apps in the left navigation panel, and then in the search bar type System notification and choose from the drop down menu all apps.

  3. System notification app will appear. Click on the modules.

Below are the modules that are responsible for recipient types in plan notification:

  1. Email Recipient.

  2. IM Recipient.

  3. User Recipient

  4. Group Recipient

  5. Committer Recipient

  6. Watcher Recipient

  7. Webhook

Enabling or disabling these modules will control the recipient type list. For example, If you want to prevent Bamboo users to configure Email recipient type. You can disable the module Email Recipient.

Turning off a module of the System notification app will remove the recipient type from all of your plans and deployment projects and not just some of them.

Updated on April 2, 2025

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