win_toast – Sends Toast windows notification to logged in users on Windows 10 or later hosts

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

• Sends alerts which appear in the Action Center area of the windows desktop.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
expire integer	Default: 45	How long in seconds before the notification expires.
group string	Default: "Powershell"	Which notification group to add the notification to.
msg string	Default: "Hello, World!"	The message to appear inside the notification. May include \n to format the message to appear within the Action Center.
popup boolean	Choices: no yes ←	If no, the notification will not pop up and will only appear in the Action Center.
tag string	Default: "Ansible"	The tag to add to the notification.
title string	Default: "Notification HH:mm"	The notification title, which appears in the pop up..

Notes

Note

• This module must run on a windows 10 or Server 2016 host, so ensure your play targets windows hosts, or delegates to a windows host.

• The module does not fail if there are no logged in users to notify.

• Messages are only sent to the local host where the module is run.

• You must run this module with async, otherwise it will hang until the expire period has passed.

See Also

See also

win_msg – Sends a message to logged in users on Windows hosts

The official documentation on the win_msg module.

win_say – Text to speech module for Windows to speak messages and optionally play sounds

The official documentation on the win_say module.

Examples

- name: Warn logged in users of impending upgrade (note use of async to stop the module from waiting until notification expires).
  win_toast:
    expire: 60
    title: System Upgrade Notification
    msg: Automated upgrade about to start.  Please save your work and log off before {{ deployment_start_time }}
  async: 60
  poll: 0

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
expire_at_utc string	always	Calculated utc date time when the notification expires. Sample: 07 July 2017 04:50:54
no_toast_sent_reason string	when no logged in users are detected	Text containing the reason why a notification was not sent. Sample: No logged in users to notify
sent_localtime string	always	local date time when the notification was sent. Sample: 07 July 2017 05:45:54
time_taken float	always	How long the module took to run on the remote windows host in seconds. Sample: 0.3706631999999997
toast_sent boolean	always	Whether the module was able to send a toast notification or not.

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Jon Hawkesworth (@jhawkesworth)

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