Add a user activated webhook event to get notifications when users need to be approved manually

[rbabayoff (Ronen Babayoff)]

Hi,

For deployments where users need to be approved manually, there is no way to notify admins or moderators (via slack or email) that a user has verified his email address and is waiting for approval. Solving this would really help minimize user on-boarding time, to the benefit of themselves and the community.

I tried to send such a notification using zapier, following the topic below but then realized that a user verified event is missing from discourse:

Trigger a Zapier task with Discourse Webhooks

[image] Want to use Discourse Webhooks to trigger a task via Zapier? Let’s get started! Zapier requires a trigger and an action. In this howto the trigger will be a Discourse Webhook and the action will be to send an email. Send an Email on any User event We will now set up a Zap to send email on any user event (i.e when a user is created, approved or updated). To trigger on a specific user event, see Trigger on a specific user event below. Create a Discourse Webhook Create a new Disco…