User dialog of tasks

With the Storyblok tasks app, you can add a dialog that pops up when a user executes or wants to execute a task. With the Task manager, you can also create a task for editors in a space that will trigger a webhook for different tasks like deploying and publishing content.

To use the Tasks app, follow the steps below

• Navigate to your App directory {1} on your Storyblok space and install the Task app, this will add the task app icon to your space.

• Click on the Tasks icon {2} and click on the New task {3} button to create a new task.

• Fill in the details of your task as shown in the example below and Save {4}.

Example

When setting up tasks with the tasks app you have the possibility to add a dialog that pops up when the user wants to execute the task.

Fill out the field with a JSON configuration like in the example below to see how it works.

The provided user input will be available in the webhook payload under the attribute dialog_values

To show the dialog above following JSON is required:

Json{
  "name": {
    "type": "text",
    "display_name": "What's your name?"
  },
  "environment": {
    "type": "option",
    "options": [
      {
        "name": "Dev",
        "value": "dev"
      },
      {
        "name": "Staging",
        "value": "staging"
      }
    ],
    "display_name": "Which environment?"
  }
}

Available types

• text

• option