Read, Unread, and tagged messages are all examples of different views you can use in the inbox. There is support for the inbox views in Courier’s GraphQL Client, React-hooks and Components. Views are not yet supported in our Mobile SDKs natively in our mobile SDKs, but are available through CourierClient. If you need help implementing them, do not hesitate to reach out and we can help guide you through the APIs and interacting with the Client to create your own views.

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Notifications (Default)

By default, the Courier inbox provides all messages via its API’s sorted by time received. Both read and unread statuses are retrieved, but archived messages are filtered out. Pinned messages are returned and displayed at the top and in the APIs will be a separate object (messages key vs pinned key).

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Unread / Read Views

Having an unread view may be the experience you’d like to present to your end users. You can configure the Inbox with these views when implementing it in your front-end.

React Inbox

<Inbox
  views={[
      {id: "unread", label: "Unread", params: {status: "unread"}},
      {id: "read", label: "Read", params: {status: "read"}}
  ]}
/>

Components Inbox

window.courierConfig = {
  components: {
      inbox: {
          views: [
              {id: "unread", label: "Unread", params: {status: "unread"}},
              {id: "read", label: "Read", params: {status: "read"}}
          ]
      }
  }
}

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Archived Messages

You retrieve and display messages that a user as archived by exposing the Archive view.

React Inbox

<Inbox
  views={[
      {id: "notifications", label: "Messages"}},
      {id: "archived", label: "Archived", params: {archived: true}}
  ]}
/>

Components Inbox

window.courierConfig = {
  components: {
      inbox: {
          views: [
              {id: "notifications", label: "Messages"}},
              {id: "archived", label: "Archived", params: {archived: true}}
          ]
      }
  }
}

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Inbox Preferences

You can allow a user to see and change their user preferences by adding the preference view.

React Inbox

<Inbox
  views={[
      {id: "notifications", label: "Messages"}},
      {id: "preferences", label: "Preferences"}
  ]}
/>

Components Inbox

window.courierConfig = {
  components: {
      inbox: {
          views: [
              {id: "notifications", label: "Messages"}},
              {id: "preferences", label: "Preferences"}
          ]
      }
  }
}

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Custom Filtered Views

You can create filtered views for the inbox by specifying which tags you would like to filter on. By using metadata.tags in the Send API, inbox messages will be tagged with the same information and can be retrieved and displayed as a view. Tags accepts and array and a view can be filtered by a multiple types.

{
  "message": {
    "template": "JFGC0K5X554AWXM38JPFFXBNFRDW",
    "profile": {
      "user_id": "claude"
    },
    "data": {
      "refund_amount": "$12.34"
    },
    "metadata": {
      "tags": ["refund"]
    }
  }
}

React Inbox

<Inbox
  views={[
      {id: "notifications", label: "Messages"}},
      {id: "refunds", label: "Refund", params: {tags: ['refund']}},
      {id: "orders", label: "Orders", params: {tags: ['order']}},
      {id: "transactions", label: "All Transactions", params: {tags: ['refund', 'order']}},
      {id: "sales", label: "Sales", params: {tags: ['sales']}}
  ]}
/>

window.courierConfig = {
  components: {
      inbox: {
              {id: "notifications", label: "Messages"}},
              {id: "refunds", label: "Refund", params: {tags: ['refund']}},
              {id: "orders", label: "Orders", params: {tags: ['order']}},
              {id: "transactions", label: "All Transactions", params: {tags: ['refund', 'order']}},
              {id: "sales", label: "Sales", params: {tags: ['sales']}}
          ]
      }
  }
}

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Inbox Hooks, window.fetchMessages() and GraphQL for custom filtered views

If you are building your own user interface with our APIs, we support custom views in there as well. Here are a few examples.

@trycourier/client-graphql

import { Inbox } from "@trycourier/client-graphql"
inboxApi = Inbox({
  clientKey: "abc123",
  userId: "me123"
});
const messageCount = await inboxApi.getInboxMessages({
  tags?: ['order', 'refund'],
});

Components APIs

window.courier.inbox.fetchMessages({ params:{tags: ['order','refund']}})
console.log(window.courier.inbox.messages)

Hooks example

const MessageList = () => {
    let {fetchMessages, messages} = useInbox()

    let handleClick = ()  => {
        fetchMessages({ params:{tags: ['order','refund']}})
    }

return <div >
    <button onClick={handleClick}>get transaction messages</button>
        <ul>
            {messages.map(m=><li key={m.id}>{m.title}</li>)}
        </ul>
    </div>
}

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Custom Tags, Bookmarks, Saved Messages

Courier Inbox allows you to add then remove tags that weren’t part of the metadata.tags which is useful for building a custom “Save Message” or “Bookmark” feature. You can add and remove tags then use the same filtering logic as above to filter the inbox by a tag.

Hooks Example

const {addTag, removeTag, fetchMessages} = useInbox()

const saveTag = (message_id: string, tag: string) => {
    addTag(message_i, 'save')
}

const unsaveTag = (message_id: string, tag: string) => {
    removeTag(message_i, 'save')
}

const toggleSave = (message: IInboxMessagePreview) => {
    const save_tag = 'save'
    if (message.tags?.includes(save_tag))
        removeTag(message.id, save_tag)
    } else {
        addTag(message.id, save_tag)
    }
}

fetchMessages({ params:{tags: ['save']}})

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Adding View to the template designer

NOTE

This is under a feature flag currently, please reach out to Courier support or your account team to turn on.

While designing a template, you may want to select which view you would like this appear in an inbox. You can enter a comma separated list of tags and those will automatically be put into the metadata.tags field when sending to the user. This allows them to be filtered in a view on the inbox using one of those tags.

Using a TemplateReact SDK