Custom Notification type

The notification is not responsible for distributing notifications. That is the purpose of Notification Distribution Types (Email, Live Alert). 

That said, Notification Preferences can be used to identify the selections in your screenshot: 

 List Notification Preference REST Endpoint 

 Notifications In-Process API Service (via the ListPreferences() method)

 core_v2_notificationUserPreference Script API    

Note that these APIs return results for the accessing user.

We have created a custom notification distribution type and using the controller if we generate a notification , we are receiving that notification text as email as well .

Is there anyway to restrict the same

public void CreateNotification(Guid contentId, Guid contentTypeId,string url, int contentAuthor, int subscriberId)
		{
			_notificationController.CreateUpdate(new NotificationCreateUpdateOptions
			{
				ContentId = contentId,
				ContentTypeId = contentTypeId,
				ContentUrl = url,
				LastUpdate = DateTime.UtcNow,
				UserId = subscriberId,
				ActorIdToAdd = contentAuthor
			});
		}

Ben Tiedt Is there any way to restrict the notification text sending out as email.

We implemented custom Email templates and based on the user preference we are sending generating the Notifications as well  Email, But now When the notification is generated it is also distributed as email , So the user will be receiving two Emails , Is there anyway to merge both 

A notification should not distribute itself. The notification system depends on two parts: notifications and notification distribution.

Notifications generate messages based on events.

Notification distributions send notification messages via specific means (email, live alert, push notification, online chat, etc)

A notification that distributes its own message is going to conflict with the system in that distributions will still be used to send the message generated from the notification.

When implementing notifications and notification distributions as expected, end-users can decide how to receive their notifications by enabling notifications and specific distribution options within Settings > Notifications.

Ben Tiedt  Thank you, I need to implement INotificationType Plugin Type  

Ben Tiedt i had implemented this as below , using he controller i was generating the notifications when a custom comment is created ,

public class IdeaChatNotificationType : INotificationType , ISingletonPlugin
	{
		private INotificationController _notificationController;
		public string NotificationTypeName => "Ideas Chat";

		public string NotificationTypeDescription => "Idea Internal Chat";

		public string NotificationTypeCategory => "Idea Internal Chat";

		public Guid NotificationTypeId => new Guid("b25aa3c5-a3f9-4c23-a295-a6425b87b030");

		public bool IsCacheable => true;

		public bool VaryCacheByUser => true;

		public string Name => "Ideas Internal Chat Notifications";

		public string Description => "Raises Notification for Ideas Internal Chat Members";

		public bool CanDeleteNotification(Guid notificationId, int userId)
		{
			return true;
		}

		public string GetMessage(Guid notificationId, [Documentation("Target", OptionsType = typeof(NotificationTarget))] string target)
		{
			var notification = Apis.Get<INotifications>().Get(notificationId);
			if (notification == null) { return null; }

			return "A new [Internal Idea Chat] Comment added ";
		}

		public string GetTargetUrl(Guid notificationId) 
		{
			var notification = Apis.Get<INotifications>().Get(notificationId);
			return notification != null && notification.Content != null ? notification.Content.Url : null;
		}

		public void Initialize()
		{

		}

		public void SetController(INotificationController controller)
		{
			_notificationController = controller;
		}

		public void CreateNotification(Guid contentId, Guid contentTypeId,string url, int contentAuthor, int subscriberId)
		{
			_notificationController.CreateUpdate(new NotificationCreateUpdateOptions
			{
				ContentId = contentId,
				ContentTypeId = contentTypeId,
				ContentUrl = url,
				LastUpdate = DateTime.UtcNow,
				UserId = subscriberId,
				ActorIdToAdd = contentAuthor
			});
		}
	}

i was triggering the schedular job to generate notifications and send emails ,

public void Execute(JobData jobData)
		{
			try
			{
				int userId = int.Parse(jobData.Data["userId"]);
				var data = jobData.Data["body"];
				Guid id = Guid.Parse(jobData.Data["id"]);
				string role = pluginConfiguration.GetCustom("role").Replace("Role=", "").Trim();
				int roleid = int.Parse(role);

				var roleobj = Apis.Get<IRoles>().Get(roleid);
				if (roleobj == null) return;

				var user = Apis.Get<IUsers>().Get(new UsersGetOptions { Id = userId });
				var _ideaapi = Apis.Get<IIdeas>(); 
				var idea = _ideaapi.Get(id);
				if (user == null) return;
				if (idea == null) return;
				string subject = string.Format("Idea chat : {0} - {1} ", idea.Challenge.Group.Name, idea.Name);
				string body = "<div><p style=\"font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0;\">New chat comment on  @@title by @@displayname</p><p>@@body</p><div style=\"clear: both;\"></div><p><span style=\"color: #0087c3; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"@@url\" >View online</a></span></div>";
				body = body.Replace("@@title", idea.Name).Replace("@@displayname", user.DisplayName).Replace("@@body", data).Replace("@@url", idea.Url);
				
				string[] rolename = new string[] { roleobj.Name };
				var notificationplugin = PluginManager.GetSingleton<IdeaChatNotificationType>();
				
				var done = false;
				var pageIndex = 0;
				while (!done)
				{
					var growners = Apis.Get<IGroupUserMembers>().List(idea.Challenge.Group.Id.Value, new GroupUserMembersListOptions { IncludeRoleMembers = true, PageSize = 100, PageIndex = pageIndex });
					var _roleapi = Apis.Get<IRoleUsers>();
					var _emaiapi = Apis.Get<ISendEmail>();
					var _users = Apis.Get<IUsers>();
					var _notifications = Apis.Get<INotifications>();
					bool send = false;
					Guid nottypeid = new Guid("b25aa3c5-a3f9-4c23-a295-a6425b87b030");
					Guid distypeid = new Guid("0d3948d6-aabc-4a58-b30a-1e46eda9abe8");

					foreach (var owner in growners)
					{
						if (_roleapi.IsUserInRoles(owner.User.Username, rolename))
						{
							_users.RunAsUser(owner.User.Username, () => {

								var preferences = _notifications.ListPreferences();
								var dd = preferences.Preferences.FirstOrDefault(x => (x.NotificationTypeId == nottypeid && x.DistributionTypeId == null));
								if (dd != null && dd.IsEnabled)
								{
									var per = preferences.Preferences.First(x => (x.NotificationTypeId == nottypeid && x.DistributionTypeId == distypeid));
									send = per.IsEnabled;
								}

								


							});

							
							if (send) _emaiapi.Send(new SendEmailOptions { Subject = subject, Body = body, ToEmail = owner.User.PrivateEmail });
							notificationplugin.CreateNotification(idea.ContentId, _ideaapi.ContentTypeId , idea.Url, userId, owner.User.Id.Value);
							send = false;
						}
					}

					if (growners.TotalCount <= 100 * (pageIndex + 1)) done = true;
					pageIndex++;

				}

				
			}
			catch(Exception e)
			{
				throw e;
			}
			
		}

Notifications and Emails are delivered as expected but, 

We are receiving two emails the one we created  and the other system generated

system-generated is below 

so is there a way to restrict the system genrated email since we already generated one . Please correct me if i was in a wrong path

Thanks

Email is already a distribution type -- a notification type should not send any notification messages because they will be sent by the enabled notification distribution types. The notification type is only responsible for generating the message so that notification distribution types can send them, the notification type itself does not send the message it creates.