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Admin notifications

Allows admins to generate notifications for users via the console or an HTTP endpoint

Console command

$ sudo -u www-data ./occ notification:generate \
  admin "Short message up to 255 characters" \
  -l "Optional: longer message with more details, up to 4000 characters"

Help

$ sudo -u www-data ./occ notification:generate --help
Usage:
  notification:generate [options] [--] <user-id> <short-message>

Arguments:
  user-id                          User ID of the user to notify
  short-message                    Short message to be sent to the user (max. 255 characters)

Options:
  -l, --long-message=LONG-MESSAGE  Long mesage to be sent to the user (max. 4000 characters) [default: ""]

HTTP request

curl -H "OCS-APIREQUEST: true" -X POST \
  https://admin:admin@localhost/ocs/v2.php/apps/admin_notifications/api/v1/notifications/admin \
  -d "shortMessage=Short message up to 255 characters" \
  -d "longMessage=Optional: longer message with more details, up to 4000 characters"

Help

curl -H "OCS-APIREQUEST: true" -X POST \
  https://<admin-user>:<admin-app-password-token>@<server-url>/ocs/v2.php/apps/admin_notifications/api/v1/notifications/<user-id> \
  -d "shortMessage=<short-message>" \
  -d "longMessage=<long-message>"

admin-user:                User ID of a user with admin priviliges
admin-app-password-token:  Password or an "app password" of the "admin-user"
server-url:                URL with Webroot of your Nextcloud installation
user-id:                   User ID of the user to notify
short-message:             Short message to be sent to the user (max. 255 characters)
long-message:              Long mesage to be sent to the user (max. 4000 characters)

Return codes

Status Description
200 Notification was created successfully
400 Too long or empty short-message, too long long-message
404 Unknown user
500 Unexpected server error
503 Instance is in maintenance mode

Screenshot

Both the occ command and the HTTP request generate the same notification

Admin notification triggered from console