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Notifications

This guide covers how to dynamically send notifications to users when an event occurs.

Backend events and settings

Let's say we want to create a notification to send to video chat participants after a chat has completed.

In the relevant NotificationDelegate.php:

$this->dispatcher->trigger('notification', 'all', [
  'to' => [$videochat->getParticipantGuid()],
  'entity' => $hostEntity,
  'from' => $videochat->getHostGuid(),
  'notification_view' => $videochat_complete,
  'params' => [],
  ]);

Add your notification_view to PushSettings.php:

class PushSettings
{
protected $types = [
    ...
    'videochat_complete' => true,
];

Also add your notification_view to:

• Notification/Manager.php to determine which notification category it belongs to (e.g boosts, subscriptions, votes, etc.)
• Notification/Extensions/Push.php

Frontend template

Set up the template in notification.component.html:

<ng-template ngSwitchCase="videochat_complete">
  ...
</ng-template>

Testing

Make sure the notification dispatcher runner is running:

docker-compose exec php-fpm php /var/www/Minds/engine/cli.php QueueRunner run --runner=NotificationDispatcher