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Send in-App Notification in model driven app from power automate.

Send in-App Notification in model driven app from power automate.

Microsoft has introduced a new in-app notification feature which is now generally available as part of the 2022 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365.
This app notification feature allows the model driven app to pop notifications for specific users .
In-app notifications uses polling to retrieve notifications periodically when the app is running. New notification are retreived at start of the model-driven app and when a page navigation occurs as long as the last retreival is more than one minute ago. If a user stays on a page for a long duration, new notifications will be retrieved.
Notification can be triggered within the dynamics CRM or from external system using java script , plugin ,WEB API , Power automate .All the notifications for a specific user are visible under model driven apps in app notification center.
To know more about the In app Notifications refer to this link In app Notification.
Below I will demonstrate how to send in app notification using power automate to a user when a case is assigned to him

First we have to enable the app notification in model driven app. Add your model driven app in a solution and open the editor.

Click on settings > Features > turn on in app Notification

Now we have enabled in app notifications for the model driven app.
Next step is to create a power automate . Open https://make.powerapps.com/ and create a new automated cloud flow.

Select the dataverse trigger when a row is added , modified or deleted .

I have configured the trigger on change of ownerid that is whenever a case is assigned to a user.
Next step is to initialize a variable to be passed as json.

{
      "actions": [
       {
        "title": "View Case",
        "data": {
          "url": "?pagetype=entityrecord&etn=incident&id=@{triggerOutputs()?['body/incidentid']}",
          "navigationTarget": "dialog"
             }      
       
       }
    ]
   }

The above json defined the behavior of the notification.

Title – Value used for tittle will be displayed as a hyper link to be clicked on in notification.
URL – Url to which the notification button will navigate to . I am using the case entity record id with parameters to navigate to case form.
navigationTarget – You can control where a navigation link opens by setting the navigationTarget parameter.

Navigation target	Behavior	Example
`dialog`	Opens in the center dialog.	`"navigationTarget": "dialog"`
`inline`	Default. Opens in the current page.	`"navigationTarget": "inline"`
`newWindow`	Opens in a new browser tab.	`"navigationTarget": "newWindow"`

Next step is to parse this json string using compose .

We will use the dynamic content to parse the string in to json .
Next step is to create a record in app notification table .
The following are the columns for the Notification (appnotification) table.

Column display	Column name	Description
Title	`title`	The title of the notification.
Owner	`ownerid`	The user who receives the notification.
Body	`body`	Details about the notification.
IconType	`icontype`	The list of predefined icons. The default value is `Info`. For more information, go to Changing the notification icon later in this topic.
Toast Type	`toasttype`	The list of notification behaviors. The default value is `Timed`. For more information, go to Changing the notification behavior later in this topic.
Expiry (seconds)	`ttlinseconds`	The number of seconds from when the notification should be deleted if not already dismissed.
Data	`data`	JSON that’s used for extensibility and parsing richer data into the notification. The maximum length is 5,000 characters.

I have assigned values to required entity fields as shown in above screenshot .
I have assigned the owner as the user to whom the case is assigned.
Our notification setup is ready to be tested , Lets assign a case to my user and check .