# OpenFin Notification Center ### This library is deprecated. We will stop publishing updates to it after July 2024. Use [@openfin/workspace/notifications](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openfin/workspace) instead. ## Overview The OpenFin Notification Center provides developers with a uniform way to create, display and organize desktop notifications as well as responding to notification events. Notifications will be displayed as toasts as well as being listed and organized in a Notification Center. The Notification Center can be accessed by clicking on the Notifications icon in the system tray. This project consist of 3 parts: 1. The Notification Center, displaying and managing notifications 2. The Notification Center Client Library, exposing APIs for applications to create and manage notifications 3. The Notification Studio, A visual editor for user notifications. ### Features - Create notifications. - Clear and dismiss notifications. - Attach handlers for when notifications are created, closed, and interacted with. - Attach indicators and buttons with actions to notifications. - Persist notifications in the Notification Center. - Persist notification toasts. - Create expiring and/or future notifications. - Search notifications in the Notification Center. - Create notifications with markdown, form, premade or custom templated notification content. - Create grouping streams for notifications. - Create pop-out frame windows for individiual notification senders and streams. - Customize to specify the Notification Center and notification toast corners on screen. - Customize Notification Center theme via Workspace Platforms. ## Getting Started Integrating the Notification Center within an application is done by importing the Client API. ### Import the Client API ```bash npm install openfin-notifications ``` The client library is also available as a resource which can be included via ` ``` This will expose the global variable `notifications` with the API methods documented in the link below. Example: ```js const notes = await notifications.getAll(); ``` The client module exports a set of functions, documented in the [API docs](https://cdn.openfin.co/docs/services/notifications/stable/api/). ### Usage Documentation is available [here](https://developers.openfin.co/docs/notifications-api).