Trigger a notification on button click

[Aditya Phatak]

Hi,

We have a requirement to trigger a notification rule (In-app/Email) when a certain type of user clicks on a button. The usual approach would be to trigger a UI Event to set an attribute on the class which can be used in rules criteria to generate notifications.

However while I was searching through the model, I found some events listed in SysNotification class (changeSet and send) which needs the parameters: key, user, payload and seem to be doing the exact same work of triggering a push notification.

Not sure of how or if the class events can be utilized and whether this has been implemented anywhere currently.

Can someone please guide me through how to implement it? If it is not feasible, is the usual approach mentioned above suitable?

 

Regards,

Aditya Phatak.

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[Atulan Zaman]

Hi Aditya,

Notifications don’t have to be configured through rules. They can be created in the server for specific users, and they will automatically receive the notification. Unless the requirement has to be implemented through rules, you can simply a bind the button with an UIEvent and make a server invocation and create the notification instance in the model event. You can use the CUDNotification’createFactory API to achieve that. For example:

Java

<pre class="">#CUDNotification.createFactory(for instanceId instanceName functionalArea localizations . args): any Factory to create a single instance of CUDNotification Arguments for UserPerson The user that this CUDNotification is for instanceId string The string representation of oid of the relatedObject that is triggering the creation of this CUDNotification instanceName String The class name of the related Object functionalArea NotificationFunctionalArea The subject area of this CUDNotification localizations Collection of localization messages of the following form: (message (: localeName "en") (: message "test") (: emailSubject "Subject") (: emailBody "Test")) Args Optional arguments Currenlty supported optional arguments: 1. actionId - Specified the OID of the action that triggered this CUDNotification 2. associatedActions - A collection of strings representing the associatedActions that need are to be linked to this CUDNotification instance <pre class="lang:xhtml decode:true "><pre class="crayon-selected"><pre class="">(CUDNotification'createFactory (user-person) (oid->string (((ScheduleItem'read () () () () () ())'1)':oid)) (ScheduleItem'UICOMPONENT_NAME) (NotificationFunctionalArea'get 'SCHED_ITEM) (collection (message (: locale "en") (: message "Test notification"))) (: isRuleBased #f) (: createTime (now)) (: associatedActions (collection (rules:AssociatedActionTypeEnum'MARK_AS_COMPLETE) (rules:AssociatedActionTypeEnum'FOLLOW_UP) ) ) ) </pre>

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<pre class="">#CUDNotification.createFactory(for instanceId instanceName functionalArea localizations . args): any Factory to create a single instance of CUDNotification   Arguments for UserPerson The user that this CUDNotification is for instanceId string The string representation of oid of the relatedObject that is triggering the creation of this CUDNotification instanceName String The class name of the related Object functionalArea NotificationFunctionalArea The subject area of this CUDNotification localizations Collection of localization messages of the following form: (message (: localeName "en") (: message "test") (: emailSubject "Subject") (: emailBody "Test")) Args Optional arguments Currenlty supported optional arguments: 1. actionId - Specified the OID of the action that triggered this CUDNotification 2. associatedActions - A collection of strings representing the associatedActions that need are to be linked to this CUDNotification instance <pre class="lang:xhtml decode:true "><pre class="crayon-selected"><pre class="">(CUDNotification'createFactory (user-person) (oid->string (((ScheduleItem'read () () () () () ())'1)':oid)) (ScheduleItem'UICOMPONENT_NAME) (NotificationFunctionalArea'get 'SCHED_ITEM) (collection (message (: locale "en") (: message "Test notification"))) (: isRuleBased #f) (: createTime (now)) (: associatedActions (collection (rules:AssociatedActionTypeEnum'MARK_AS_COMPLETE) (rules:AssociatedActionTypeEnum'FOLLOW_UP) ) ) ) </pre>

 

Thanks,
Atulan

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[Aditya Phatak]

Hi Atulan,

The drawback using the CUDNotification is that we cannot configure the criteria/recipients at runtime like we do from Rules. I was looking for a flexible option to just trigger the notification rule from UI Action if at all feasible.

 

Regards,

Aditya Phatak

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