Adding runbooks programmatically with Custom Event Transformers

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One of the most exciting things you can do with Custom Event Transformers is to enhance events based on arbitrary calculations. The example I wrote in the docs calculates “Is an Instagram post labelled cute?”, but you could just as easily write “If load >50% but <90% then attache Runbook A, if it’s >90% attach Runbook B”

var webhook = PD.inputRequest.body;

var normalized_event = {
  event_type: PD.Trigger,
  description: 'Incoming kitten from ' + webhook.user.username,
  client: 'Instagram',
  client_url: webhook.link,
  contexts: [{
    type: 'image',
    src: webhook.images.standard_resolution.url,
    href: webhook.link,
    alt: webhook.caption.text
  }]
};

if (webhook.caption.text.indexOf('cute') > -1) {
normalized_event.contexts.push({
    type: 'link',
    href: 'https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/why-you-are-addicted-to-cute-baby-animals',
    text: '[Runbook] How to handle cuteness overload'
  });
}

PD.emitGenericEvents([normalized_event]);
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