Reading notifications from the API

Hello @ablosser and welcome to the community!

I hope you like it here 💪

There is no way of retrieving that information via API (the notifications that have not been opened).

As an idea, if each item of the board is a task, you could have a status column that indicates if the task is open or not. Then you could query for all the items in which that user is assigned (in a people column) and check how many of them have a “open task” status. You could count them on your end and display the number in your platform.

I hope that helps!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers,
Matias

Hey thanks! I think that would be acceptable but I can’t figure out how to query items by assignee. Looks like the item endpoint requires item IDs as the parameter?

Any idea how I’d send a query for items by a people column like you suggested?

Hi @ablosser,

To query for items by a people column, you could use the items_by_column_values query:

query {
    items_by_column_values (board_id: 1234567890, column_id: "person", column_value: "Patrick Star") {
        id
        name
    }
}

Keep in mind that we only offer limited support for the items_by_column_values() “People” queries.

The people column query in this case will only return results for items where a single user is assigned. This query doesn’t support arrays of users, will only return results based on actual user name and not User ID.