Types of notifications
Categories
App reviews
Notification | Info |
Daily app reviews digest | A recap of new reviews of your app within the past day. |
New app review | A new review of your app was published. |
Release announcement
Notification | Info |
Release announcement | A detailed message about your newly-completed release. |
Release cycle
Notification | Info |
Kickoff reminder before target time/date | Your target release kickoff time/date is approaching. |
Kickoff successful | Your release was kicked off:
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Kickoff failed | Your release could not be kicked off:
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Pilot reminder for upcoming release | A reminder for the pilot of the next release. Sent after an app update is successfully released, or when an existing release pilot is changed. |
Schedule cadence paused or resumed | Your schedule of recurring target times/dates in Runway was paused or resumed. |
VCS release successful | Your update was successfully pushed to your VCS distribution platform (for teams that ultimately release to a platform like GitHub, etc). |
Manual submit to app store successful | Your app update was manually submitted to the app store for review. |
Submit reminder before target time/date | Your target app submission time/date is approaching. This notification will also call out any remaining incomplete steps. |
Automatic submit failed - incomplete steps | Runway couldn’t automatically submit your release for review at the target time/date because one or more required steps were not complete (green). |
Automatic submit failed | Runway was unable to automatically submit your release for review at the target time/date. |
App store status was updated | Your status in the app store was changed to:
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Release reminder before target time/date | Your target app release time/date is approaching. This notification will also call out any remaining incomplete steps. |
Manual app store release successful | Your app update was manually released to the app store. |
Automatic release by Runway was successful | Runway automatically released (or started a phased release of) your app update at the target time/date. |
Automatic release by Runway failed - incomplete steps | Runway couldn’t automatically release your app update at the target time/date because one or more required steps were not complete (green). |
Automatic release by Runway failed | Runway was unable to automatically release your app update at the target time/date. |
Phased release / Staged rollout progress update | An update on the progress of your phased release (iOS) / staged rollout (Android). |
Unstable phased release halted | Runway automatically paused your phased release due to a low session stability rate. |
Stable phased release accelerated to 100% | Runway automatically accelerated your phased release / staged rollout to 100% of users due to a high session stability rate. |
Builds
Notification | Info |
New build in progress | CI started a workflow for a new Release Candidate build. |
Build stopped | CI workflow for a new Release Candidate build was stopped. |
Build failed | CI workflow for a new Release Candidate build failed. |
New build available | CI successfully completed a new Release Candidate build. |
New build available w/ artifacts | CI successfully completed a new Release Candidate build, and build artifacts are available to download. (More info) |
New production workflow build available | CI successfully completed a new production build (for teams with a separate production build workflow). |
Release process tasks
Notification | Info |
A step was approved | One of your release steps was marked as approved (for steps that need to be manually approved, currently applies to Screenshots and Metadata) |
New work has been added to this release | A ticket or code was detected that prevented the Feature Readiness step from being considered done (green). |
Feature affiliations applied | Runway automatically applied missing labels and/or Fix versions to tickets associated with your release in your project management tool. (More info) |
Feature Readiness step is complete | All work slated for this release (determined by tickets or code affiliated with the current version) is done. |
Metadata is editable | Metadata can now be edited for this release. |
Metadata defaults were applied | Runway automatically applied your default metadata to this release. (More info) |
Release tagged | Your completed release was tagged by Runway. (More info) |
Couldn't tag release | Runway tried and failed to automatically tag your completed release. |
Selected build in app store was changed | The selected build for release in the app store was manually changed via Runway. |
Checklist items
| Notification | Info |
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Checklist item incomplete | One or more checklist items is incomplete and is preventing a step from being considered done (green). |
Checklist item completed | One of your checklist items was marked as done. |
Checklist item reminder | When one or more checklist items in a step are still pending, but the step is otherwise complete, Runway will begin sending reminder notifications every 12 hours until the step's checklist is complete. |
Regression item reminder | When the Regression Testing step becomes active, and there are still pending items, Runway will begin sending reminder notifications every day until all Regression testing items are complete. |
Approval item reminder | Runway will send reminder notifications for incomplete approval items every day until all Approvals items are complete. Reminders will start a few hours after kickoff, or a few hours before submission, and include mentions for the owners of incomplete items. |
Testing
Notification | Info |
Regression testing status updated | The status of your regression testing was changed to:
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Beta testing build available for internal testing | A new build is now available for internal testers on TestFlight (iOS), or has been promoted to a Google Play testing track (Android). |
Beta testing build submitted for review for external testing | A beta testing build in TestFlight (iOS) was submitted for review in order to be available to external testers. |
Beta testing build available for external testing | A build is now available for external testing on TestFlight (iOS). |
Beta soak started | A new beta soak period started due to a new Release Candidate build becoming available. |
Beta soak complete | Beta soak period has fully elapsed. |
Beta soak ended manually | Beta soak period was marked as complete. |
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