Notification Center overview

Here™ Core UI Notification Center comprises three parts:

• Notification Center itself, the UI for users to display and manage notifications from their desktops

• The notifications client library, which contains the APIs you work with to configure your applications' notifications

• Notification Studio, a visual editor for creating notifications (with some limitations)

The client library provides a range of options to create and organize notifications to help your users stay up-to-date and complete their workflows. Notifications appear as toasts on the desktop and in the Notification Center app. You configure the notifications your apps send, and these configurations can affect what your users see in the Notification Center UI. For example, if you add the stream property to sets of notifications, users can view their notifications by stream. Users can configure their Notification Center settings, such as location of notifications and notification toasts. Users access Notification Center by selecting the Notification icon in the system tray.

Notification options

A notification can be as simple as brief informational text, or as complex as an interactive form. You can call attention to important notifications in different ways, and you can provide additional information based on events a notification sends to your application.

For details and examples, see:

• Get started with notifications

• Call attention to notifications

• Configure actions from a notification

User experience

Notification Center includes settings that let users control a range of display options. How users interact with notifications can also depend on properties you set when you create notifications. These include:

• Whether users can set reminders for a notification. See Notification reminders.

• How users interact with the body of the notification, or with the close button. See Control how users clear or dismiss notifications.

• How users interact with other elements of the notification. See Configure actions from a notification.

Notification Center versions

Notification Center has been distributed both as part of the Here Core UI Components, and as a standalone, separately versioned npm package. The separate npm package is deprecated since July 2024. Because of this dual distribution, the same release of Notification Center might have a different version string, depending on how it was distributed.