# Set up notifications for Capable in Confluence

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Microsoft Teams support is coming soon.

Capable for Confluence sends approval notifications by email straight away. To add Slack or Microsoft Teams, a Confluence site administrator opens **Global settings**, goes to the **Notifications** tab and turns on the connect switch on the **Slack** or **Microsoft Teams** card. Each person then chooses their own channels in their Capable settings.

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## Before you start

* You need to be a Confluence site administrator.
* Only Approval sends notifications. If nobody uses Approval, there is nothing to set up.
* For Microsoft Teams, you also need to be, or sit with, a Microsoft 365 **Global Administrator** or **Teams Administrator**.

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## Steps

1. Open **Global settings** for Capable in Confluence administration. You can also use **Global settings** under Manage in the Approval sidebar, or **Manage notifications** in your Capable settings.
2. Select the **Notifications** tab.
3. On the **Email** card, check that **Email notifications** is on.
4. To use Slack, turn on the connect switch on the **Slack** card and allow the Capable app in Slack.
5. To use Microsoft Teams, turn on the connect switch on the **Microsoft Teams** card, accept the consent screen and sign in.
6. If you want approvers to answer from chat, turn on **Slack approval actions** or **Microsoft Teams approval actions**.
7. Tell people they can switch **Email**, **Slack** and **Microsoft Teams** on or off for themselves in the **Notifications** section of their Capable settings.

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## What happens next

The next approval request goes out on every channel each person has switched on. Slack and Teams find people by their Confluence email address, so somebody whose chat account uses a different address gets nothing there. The Slack and Microsoft Teams cards show **Connected** once the connection is made.

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## Related

### [Notifications](https://help.gocapable.com/capable/notifications.html)

Who controls what, in full.

### [What sends notifications](https://help.gocapable.com/capable/what-sends-notifications.html)

Which events send a message.

### [Connect Slack to Capable for Confluence](https://help.gocapable.com/capable/connect-slack-to-capable-for-confluence.html)

Connecting Slack, step by step.

### [Connect Microsoft Teams to Capable for Confluence](https://help.gocapable.com/capable/connect-microsoft-teams-to-capable-for-confluence.html)

Connecting Teams, step by step.

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_Connect once. Everyone picks their own channels._