Notification Event Notification

Notification Event Action

The Notification Event action fires a RuneLite NotificationFired event on the event bus. Other plugins — including RuneLite's own built-in notification system — can react to this event, which will trigger their configured notification behaviors (such as a tray popup or screen flash) as if the notification had come from any other plugin.

📷 Screenshot needed: The Notification Event action panel showing the message field

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Fields

Message

The notification text to broadcast. Supports capture group substitution with $1, $2, etc.

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Use Cases

• RuneLite native integration: RuneLite's core notification system listens for NotificationFired events. If the user has configured RuneLite's "Send notification" setting (tray popup, screen flash) in its plugin configuration, a Notification Event will trigger that behavior using Watchdog's message.
• Cross-plugin chaining: trigger Watchdog or other plugins that listen to NotificationFired events from within Watchdog.

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Warning: Infinite Loop Risk

If you have a Notification Fired Alert with Allow Watchdog Notifications enabled, and that alert's message pattern matches the message from a Notification Event action, the alert will fire again, which fires the Notification Event again, and so on indefinitely.

To avoid this:

• Keep Allow Watchdog Notifications disabled (the default) on Notification Fired alerts.
• Or use a unique message prefix in your Notification Event messages and exclude it in your Notification Fired alert patterns.