[NV-1606] 🚀 Feature: Notification groups

[altsst]

🔖 Feature description

The ability to group notifications to a specific item (e.g: a task, a project)

Where multiple notifications to the same task are being grouped together (just like in jira and clickup):

🎤 Why is this feature needed ?

for complex applications where a lot of notifications are appearing grouping them into groups to outline the different sections would really be helpful

✌️ How do you aim to achieve this?

I want the headless react hook to return notification groups.

Where someone

1. changes the name of a task X
2. notification to group X is being added and the entire group will be shown as the first notification group

🔄️ Additional Information

No response

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this feature request has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines

Are you willing to submit PR?

None

_NV-1606

[oba2311]

Thanks @altsst !

Could you please share mode details - do you refer to the notification center specifically? We do have feeds over there, which are not the same but similar.

Thanks

[altsst]

Of course @oba2311,

I am mainly talking about the headless useNotifications hook.

Let's take a todos app for example:
Notifications should look like this: (pseudo)

[
  { groupId: 'task_1', notifications: [ {..name changed..}, {..assignee changed..}, {..new comment..} ] },
  { groupId: 'task_2', notifications: [ {..status updated..} ] },
  { groupId: 'task_3', notifications: [ {..new comment..} ] },
]

I haven't found anything like that in the novu.co documentation.

[oba2311]

To me this sounds like what you have in mind is actually Topics.

[oba2311]

Putting this on hold unless we hear back from opener.

[altsst]

@oba2311 Topics seem to be only for sending notifications to multiple users.

And not for getting the desired notifications data structure (#2640 (comment))

[oba2311]

@scopsy - could you take a quick look here? I might be missing something. thanks

[scopsy]

@altsst have a point here @oba2311, those are unrelated things as topics is about sending notifications an fanning them out. We don't have any functionality as of today to fetch notification based on those groups.

@altsst to better understand your usecase, you are using topics to trigger to those entities for example the group: "This is something" is a topic?

If that's the case, we would need to a allow optionally group the feed by "topicKey" in that case, as we don't have something like this today.

[altsst]

@scopsy Correct! And the items beneath it are the associated notifications/updates