🔔 dataverse-broadcast-notification-solution 📢

Open source Dataverse Solution to display Global Notifications per Model-Driven Apps Helpful to notify your dataverse end users.

⭐Key Features⭐

✔️ Enable PowerPlatform Admins/Super Users to broadcast global notifications per app to their end users

• The app is only localized in english and french.

✔️ Provide a dedicated model-driven app "AppNotification Broadcasts Management" to manage your global notifications
✔️ Provides two security roles :

• one for admin/super users: App Global Notification - Manager
• one for end users: App Global Notification - Reader

✔️ 100% supported code
✔️ Notifications's content can be localized in english and french.
✔️🆕 Notifications can now have an action button that opens a web page. (starting release v1.1.0)

🎯 Most popular use cases 📂

• Notify users system will shutdown for maintenance 🚧
• Any kind of announcements 📣
• Warn/inform users of a known bug ⚠️🐞

Getting Started

1. Import Solution

1. Simply download the latest release

2. Import the Managed or Unmanaged solution to your dataverse environment

2. Setup security roles

The solution provides two security roles:

• App Global Notification - Manager
  • Allow users to create/edit/delete global notifications
  • Allow acces to the model-driven app: AppNotification Broadcasts Management
• App Global Notification - Reader
  • This role gives only the read privilege to global notifications, required to display notifications
  • Does not give access to the model-driven app: AppNotification Broadcasts Management

If you want to use your own security roles:

• Make sure your end-users have atleast read organization level privilege on the following entities:
  • fdn_BroadcastAppNotification
  • fdn_LocalizedNotificationContent
• Make sure your admin users have atleast create,write and read organization level privileges on the following entities:
  • fdn_BroadcastAppNotification
  • fdn_LocalizedNotificationContent

3. Configure your global notifications

1. Navigate to the model-driven app: AppNotification Broadcasts Management
2. Create a new global notification \

3. Fill the mandatory fields and save
4. Translate your notification message if needed. \

5. Publish the notification \

Note : Notifications must be published to be visible by your end users.

Important ❗ What you need to know ❗

• Notifications can take up to 5 minutes to be visible by your end-users. For performance purposes, the query result is cached for 5 minutes until it queries again.
  • Currently, the cache time is hardcoded. This will be configurable in a futur release.
• Notifications are displayed when user:
  • loads a form record
  • loads a 'entitylist' page
• Only Notifications that are bound the current model driven app that the end user is on will show up.
• Only Published notifications are displayed.
• Notifications can be unpublished the same way you publish them.
• As of now, users are not able to 'dissmiss' notifications as there was no supported way to save that state.
• The global notifications works around the Xrm.App Client-Api
• The notification mechanism uses the application ribbon to display the notifications. There is a hidden button with a custom enable rule that it's sole purpose is to render the notifications to the ui.

Notification Samples

Information

Warning

Danger

Success

When more than one notification (closed)

When more than one notification (opened)

🆕 With an Action button

Feel free to contribute or submit ideas/suggestions/issues

This is an open-source solution. Therefore the community is more than welcomed to contribute to this project. Ideas and suggestions are also welcomed so I can add more features for the community.

If you have any bugs, please submit an issue.