What is the purpose of group.notify

JohnMDye — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 09:10:55 GMT

I stumbed across the group.notify method in the ArcGIS API for Python documentation and thought it would be useful for sending custom notifications to users when content is marked as deprecated or a group owner leaves the company and we need to notify the remaining group admins so that we can identify a new group owner. I gave it a go to test it out and got a 403 response back.

# Sign in to Portal
gis = GIS('https://myportal.domain.com/arcgis', getpass.getuser(), getpass.getpass("Password: "))
gis.users.me
my = gis.users.me
for group in my.groups:
    if group.title == 'testing':
        keys = ['admins', 'users']
        members = []
        for key in keys:
            for user in group.get_members()[key]:
                members.append(user)
    print(group.notify(members, "Test Notification", "This is a test notification", "builtin"))‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Specifically, here's the response I'm getting:

You do not have permissions to access this resource or perform this operation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-41-271dd187a943> in <module>
      8                 members.append(user)
      9         print(members)
---> 10     print(group.notify(members, "Test Notification", "This is a test notification", "builtin"))

C:\Miniconda\envs\gis\lib\site-packages\arcgis\gis\__init__.py in notify(self, users, subject, message, method, client_id)
   5566             "f": "json"
   5567         }
-> 5568         return self._gis._con.post(url, params)
   5569 
   5570     def get_members(self):

C:\Miniconda\envs\gis\lib\site-packages\arcgis\_impl\connection.py in post(self, path, postdata, files, ssl, compress, is_retry, use_ordered_dict, add_token, verify_cert, token, try_json, out_folder, file_name, force_bytes, add_headers)
   1181                                          verify_cert=verify_cert, is_retry=True)
   1182 
-> 1183                 self._handle_json_error(resp_json['error'], errorcode)
   1184                 return None
   1185 

C:\Miniconda\envs\gis\lib\site-packages\arcgis\_impl\connection.py in _handle_json_error(self, error, errorcode)
   1202 
   1203         errormessage = errormessage + "\n(Error Code: " + str(errorcode) +")"
-> 1204         raise RuntimeError(errormessage)
   1205 
   1206 class _StrictURLopener(request.FancyURLopener):

RuntimeError: You do not have permissions to access this resource or perform this operation.
(Error Code: 403)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I'm an Administrator of the Organization and Owner of this group. It seems this might be a private method available onl to Esri. If so, not cool. Share the wealth. What is the point of group.notify method if no one can use it?

Re: What is the purpose of group.notify

JessicaRouns — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 02:42:49 GMT

I have the same issue here, can anyone please shed some light?

Re: What is the purpose of group.notify

DougZietz1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 12:36:38 GMT

Been almost a year. Has anyone answered this? I can do this on AGOL/organization page fine but not on my local Enterprise.

Re: What is the purpose of group.notify

JackGeo — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:40:10 GMT

Been almost 2 years. Has anyone answered this? Tried to do it via the REST APIs same issue...

Re: What is the purpose of group.notify

JakeSkinner — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:27:47 GMT

I put together a document on sending notifications using the notify method.

Re: What is the purpose of group.notify

JoshDunsFCX — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:09:27 GMT

Hey Jake, I'm trying to use this workflow in a similar way within Enterprise (10.9.1) and am getting the same 403 as the original poster (i have an administrator role and own the group I'm using to send the notification). Does this only work in AGOL?

Re: What is the purpose of group.notify

JakeSkinner — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 02:02:38 GMT

@JoshDunsFCX check to make sure you have e-mail settings configured for Portal.

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