Custom Event Fields in Notifications
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You can add custom event fields in to notifications, but you must be careful to add them properly. If a zenactiond tries to evaluate a tales expression and the field is not there, zenactiond will error and your notification will never execute.
Creating your notification with a custom evt field
If that field does not exist on the event, zenaction will error and nothing will happen.
Instead, use a tales OR.
${evt/customField | string: custom Field does not exist}