useNotify

This hook returns a function that displays a notification at the bottom of the page.

import { useNotify } from 'react-admin';

const NotifyButton = () => {
    const notify = useNotify();
    const handleClick = () => {
        notify(`Comment approved`, { type: 'success' });
    }
    return <button onClick={handleClick}>Notify</button>;
};

The callback takes 2 arguments:

• The message to display
• an options object with the following keys:
  • type: The notification type (info, success, error or warning - the default is info)
  • messageArgs: options to pass to the translate function (because notification messages are translated if your admin has an i18nProvider). It is useful for inserting variables into the translation.
  • undoable: Set it to true if the notification should contain an “undo” button
  • autoHideDuration: Duration (in milliseconds) after which the notification hides. Set it to 0 if the notification should not be dismissible.
  • multiLine: Set it to true if the notification message should be shown in more than one line.

Here are more examples of useNotify calls:

// notify a warning
notify(`This is a warning`, { type: 'warning' });
// pass translation arguments
notify('item.created', { type: 'info', messageArgs: { resource: 'post' } });
// send an undoable notification
notify('Element updated', { type: 'info', undoable: true });

undoable Option

When using useNotify as a side effect for an undoable mutation, you MUST set the undoable option to true, otherwise the “undo” button will not appear, and the actual update will never occur.

import * as React from 'react';
import { useNotify, Edit, SimpleForm } from 'react-admin';

const PostEdit = () => {
    const notify = useNotify();

    const onSuccess = () => {
        notify('Changes saved`', { undoable: true });
    };

    return (
        <Edit mutationMode="undoable" mutationOptions=>
            <SimpleForm>
                ...
            </SimpleForm>
        </Edit>
    );
}

autoHideDuration Option

You can define a custom delay for hiding a given notification.

import { useNotify } from 'react-admin';

const LogoutButton = () => {
    const notify = useNotify();
    const logout = useLogout();

    const handleClick = () => {
        logout().then(() => {
            notify('Form submitted successfully', { autoHideDuration: 5000 });
        });
    };

    return <button onClick={handleClick}>Logout</button>;
};

To change the default delay for all notifications, check the Theming documentation.