Notifications

Notifications

User Notifications

Notifications displayed to users are implemented in components.makahiki_notifications.models.UserNotification. Each notification has a level that is borrowed directly from Django's messages framework. The UserNotification model has a few static methods for creating user notifications:

• UserNotification.create_info_notification(recipient, contents, display_alert=False)
• UserNotification.create_success_notification(recipient, contents, display_alert=False)
• UserNotification.create_warning_notification(recipient, contents, display_alert=True)
• UserNotification.create_error_notification(recipient, contents, display_alert=True)

Each of these methods creates a notification of the corresponding level. recipient is the recipient of the notification and contents is the text of the notification. display_alert will display an alert the next time the user makes a page request in the system. Success notifications are the only notifications that are "share-able" on Facebook.

In the interface, info and success notifications are both displayed using jQuery UI's ui-state-highlight class while warnings and errors are displayed using ui-state-error.