Can I send a template notification using Azure Notification Hub portal?

Question

I'm evaluating ANH for use in our product and for our initial phase I want to test sending messages using the portal. I also want to use templates to send the notification but the documentation doesn't indicate whether this is possible via the portal.

Answer 1

Hi @base2monk

Yes, your scenario is possible. You can send messages using the Azure portal and also use templates to send notifications. According to the Microsoft documentation, you can create a notification hub in the Azure portal and then configure the hub with platform notification system (PNS) settings. You can find the tutorial on how to create an Azure notification hub using the Azure portal in the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/create-notification-hub-portal

Regarding the use of templates, you can use the Notification Hubs client to send notifications from a Python back-end. You can find the tutorial on how to use Notification Hubs with Python in the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/notification-hubs/notification-hubs-python-push-notification-tutorial

You can initialize your Notification Hubs client and then add the send code depending on your target mobile platform. The sample code also adds higher-level methods to enable sending notifications based on the platform, for example, send_windows_notification for Windows, send_apple_notification for Apple, etc.

Hope that helps.

-Grace