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Notifications help you stay connected with Skill Exchange by alerting you of requests and updates. Whether you’re a mentor sharing knowledge, a learner seeking guidance, or a hack project participant, notifications ensure you never miss opportunities to engage and collaborate. Skill Exchange supports notifications through Backstage’s built-in notification plugin.
Slack notifications have been deprecated and will be removed in future versions. We recommend migrating to Backstage notifications by following the configuration steps below. If you still want to receive notifications in Slack, you can use the Backstage Slack notification processor alongside Backstage notifications.

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Backstage Notifications

Skill Exchange integrates with Backstage’s built-in notification plugin to deliver notifications directly within your Backstage instance.

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Prerequisites

Before configuring Skill Exchange notifications, you must install the Backstage notifications plugin. Follow the official installation guide to set up the plugin in your Backstage instance.

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Configuration

Once the notifications plugin is installed, enable Skill Exchange notifications by adding the following configuration to your app-config.yaml:
app-config.yaml
skillExchange:
  # ...
  notifications:
    enabled: true
  # ...

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Customizing Notification Messages

Skill Exchange allows you to customize notification messages to match your organization’s communication style and terminology. For detailed instructions on customizing notification messages, including code examples and best practices, see the Customizing Skill Exchange Notifications documentation.