How To: Send scheduled notifications

If you have a scenario in which you want to send a notification at some point in the future, but do not have an easy way to wake up your back-end code to send the notification. Standard tier notification hubs support a feature that enables you to schedule notifications up to seven days in the future.

Schedule your notifications

When sending a notification, simply use the ScheduledNotification class in the Notification Hubs SDK as shown in the following example:

C#

Notification notification = new AppleNotification("{\"aps\":{\"alert\":\"Happy birthday!\"}}");
var scheduled = await hub.ScheduleNotificationAsync(notification, new DateTime(2014, 7, 19, 0, 0, 0));

Cancel scheduled notifications

Also, you can cancel a previously scheduled notification using its notificationId:

C#

await hub.CancelNotificationAsync(scheduled.ScheduledNotificationId);

There are no limits on the number of scheduled notifications you can send.

Next steps

See the following tutorials:

• Push notifications to all registered devices
• Push notifications to specific devices
• Push localized notifications
• Push notifications to specific users
• Push location-based notifications