Use Case

FlutterFlow enables users to schedule and trigger notifications. You may want to automatically send notifications to multiple users from the user's collection when a document is created. This article details a step by step instructions on how to achieve this.

Sample Project

We've created a sample project to demonstrate how to build this in FlutterFlow:

https://app.flutterflow.io/project/auto-notification-2bm5hz

Keep reading for step-by-step instructions to learn how you can build what we have created in our sample project.

Automate Notifications Upon Creation Of A Document

Project Configuration

Ensure your project is set up correctly with Firebase.
- Here are detailed instructions on how to set up Firebase in Flutterflow
Ensure firebase@flutterflow.io account has all the necessary permissions.
- Here are detailed instructions on how to enable access to your project
To send notifications, your project must be in the Blaze plan.
Enable Push notifications in your projects and deploy them.

Send Notifications

Send notifications to multiple users from the user's collection once a post is added;

In submit button, add a backend query
- Set Query type to Query Collection
- Collection to your data source collection, i.e users
- Query type to List of Documents click save
Add create document action to the button
Set the value to the parameters sent to firebase
add another action, trigger notification action
Set notification parameters with the necessary data i.e (title, message, initial page)
In the recipient section, select multiple recipients
Click on the unset section, a pop will show
Select user document as the source of data
In the available options, select filter list items
Click unset under filter conditions, a pop will show
Select Items in list , under document properties, select Document Exists
Click Confirm , this will pop you back to the previous dialog
In this pop, under available options, select Map List Items
Click unset a pop will show, and under Document Properties select Reference
Click Confirm` in all pop-ups
Close the action chain

The notification will be triggered automatically once a new post has been sent successfully.