Notification Preferences

API for managing notification preferences

A NotificationPreference object looks like:

{
  "href": "https://canvas.instructure.com/users/1/communication_channels/email/[e-mail]/notification_preferences/new_announcement",
  // The notification this preference belongs to
  "notification": "new_announcement",
  // The category of that notification
  "category": "announcement",
  // How often to send notifications to this communication channel for the given
  // notification. Possible values are 'immediately', 'daily', 'weekly', and
  // 'never'
  "frequency": "daily"
}

List preferences

NotificationPreferencesController#index

GET /api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preferences

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preferences

GET /api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:type/:address/notification_preferences

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:type/:address/notification_preferences

Fetch all preferences for the given communication channel

Returns a list ofNotificationPreference objects.

List of preference categories

NotificationPreferencesController#category_index

GET /api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preference_categories

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preference_categories

Fetch all notification preference categories for the given communication channel

Get a preference

NotificationPreferencesController#show

GET /api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preferences/:notification

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preferences/:notification

GET /api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:type/:address/notification_preferences/:notification

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/users/:user_id/communication_channels/:type/:address/notification_preferences/:notification

Fetch the preference for the given notification for the given communication channel

Returns aNotificationPreference object.

Update a preference

NotificationPreferencesController#update

PUT /api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preferences/:notification

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preferences/:notification

PUT /api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:type/:address/notification_preferences/:notification

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:type/:address/notification_preferences/:notification

Change the preference for a single notification for a single communication channel

Request Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
notification_preferences[frequency]	Required string	The desired frequency for this notification

Update preferences by category

NotificationPreferencesController#update_preferences_by_category

PUT /api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preference_categories/:category

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preference_categories/:category

Change the preferences for multiple notifications based on the category for a single communication channel

Request Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
category	string	The name of the category. Must be parameterized (e.g. The category “Course Content” should be “course_content”)
notification_preferences[frequency]	Required string	The desired frequency for each notification in the category

Update multiple preferences

NotificationPreferencesController#update_all

PUT /api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preferences

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:communication_channel_id/notification_preferences

PUT /api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:type/:address/notification_preferences

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/users/self/communication_channels/:type/:address/notification_preferences

Change the preferences for multiple notifications for a single communication channel at once

Request Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
notification_preferences[<X>][frequency]	Required string	The desired frequency for <X> notification

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available on Github.