Creating Your First Activity

A Transposit Activity is a response to a requirement for work to be done and is a container to hold its related events.

Creating a new activity is a typical starting point when you are using Transposit.

Overview#

Watch this quick screencast for an overview of the steps you'll take below.

Creating a New Activity#

Click New in Transposit's toolbar to begin creating new activities.

Select the activity type from the list made available to your team:

Creating a New Activity in Slack#

When you're in a Slack channel connected to Transposit, type /transposit new, as shown below, to begin creating activities directly from Slack:

When you press Enter after typing /transposit new, the dialog below is displayed in Slack, so that you can create activities as a natural part of your workflow in Slack:

Creating a New Activity from Events#

All incoming events will appear in the activity feed. For each event, you can click Create activity to begin the process of creating new activities, as shown below.

Events can also appear in Slack, as shown below. For each event received in Slack, click Create activity directly in Slack to begin creating a new activity.

Once you have created an activity, you can use it as described in Using Transposit.

Next Steps#

• Activity Concepts & Best Practices
• Creating New Activity Types
• Creating New Activity Fields
• Creating Your First Runbook