Create System Notification REST Endpoint

Ben Tiedt — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:26:20 GMT

Current Revision posted to API Documentation by Ben Tiedt on 11/19/2019 20:26:20

URLs

POST api.ashx/v2/systemnotifications.xml (or .json)

Enables external applications to send system notifications to specific users, system administrators, or group owners. If GroupId is set, the calling user must have Modify Group permissions to send a notification. If GroupId is not set, the calling user must have Manage Settings permissions.

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Location	Required
Subject	`string`	The subject of the notification	Request Body	Required
Body	`string`	The body of the notification	Request Body	Required
GroupingKey	`string`	User generated key used to group duplicate notifications of the same type. Optional.	Request Body	Optional
UserIds	`string`	A comma-separated list of users to send the message to. If omitted, the notification is sent to site administrators	Request Body	Optional
GroupId	`int`	The ID of the group to send to. If omitted, the notification is sent to site administrators.	Request Body	Optional

Example Requests

C# REST SDK

This example uses the REST SDK to access the Community REST API within a .Net C# application. In the example, USER_NAME is the user name of the effective user for the request and OAUTH_CLIENT_ID and OAUTH_SECRET are the OAuth client ID and secret, respectively, associated to this application as configured in Administration > Integration > OAuth Clients with the "Client Credentials" grant type enabled. See the documentation for the REST SDK for more details about installation, configuration, and usage options.

var host = new ClientCredentialsRestHost("USER_NAME", "https://mysite.com/", "OAUTH_CLIENT_ID", "OAUTH_SECRET");
var response = host.PostToDynamic(2, "systemnotifications.json", false, new RestPostOptions {
	PostParameters = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection {
		{ "Subject", "subject" },
		{ "Body", "body" }
	}
});

Widget Javascript

This example uses the [[rest JavaScript API Module|rest JavaScript API]] to access the Community REST API within the Community web UI. When accessing the REST API through the javascript API, the effective user is the current contextual user of the web interface.

jQuery.telligent.evolution.post({
	url: jQuery.telligent.evolution.site.getBaseUrl() + 'api.ashx/v2/systemnotifications.json',
	data: { 
		'Subject': 'subject',
		'Body': 'body'
	},
	success: function(response) {

	}
});

cURL

This example uses the cURL command-line HTTP utility. ENCODED_TOKEN in the example is the base64-encoded concatenation of the user's API key (created from the user's profile), a colon (:), and the user's user name. Learn more about using the REST API.

curl -H "Rest-User-Token: ENCODED_TOKEN" -d "Subject=subject&Body=body" -X POST https://mysite.com/api.ashx/v2/systemnotifications.xml