Custom Notification Recipients to New Places with Page Reference Navigation

Question

In release Winter'21 was introduced new Target option for Custom Notifications (see here). I would like to have a specific Community page as Target Page Reference. Still, I can't figure out the format I need to put into the Target Page Reference attribute on Custom Notification action. Every format I try makes the flow fail with the error Invalid parameter value for: targetPageRef. I would like to navigate to the Community Home page. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

It seems that targetPageRef is expecting lightning pageReference types in a string format, so if you pass the otherwise json as a string, like the following:

"{"type": "standard__objectPage","attributes": {"objectApiName": "Task","actionName": "list"},"state":{"filterName":"Recent"}}"

you'll be redirected to the listview of the recent Task records when clicking the notification.

Answer 2

Thanks to @Keith for answer here For redirecting in communities you can use the below code.

private final Map<String, Object> communityPageRef = new Map<String, Object>{
    'type' => 'comm__namedPage',
    'attributes' => new Map<String, Object>{
        'pageName' => 'home'
    }
};

customNotification.setTargetPageRef(JSON.serialize(communityPageRef));

If you are on a console tab in lightning and you want to navigate to home page then use this.

private final Map<String, Object> lightningPageRef = new Map<String, Object>{
    'type' => 'standard__namedPage',
    'attributes' => new Map<String, Object>{
        'pageName' => 'home'
    }
};
customNotification.setTargetPageRef(JSON.serialize(lightningPageRef));

Answer 3

Figured I'd add this as nobody online seem to say it regarding where you need to put that in flow. You can paste that code into a text template variable (make sure it's set as plain text), then use that variable in the send custom notification action under Target Page Reference.