Re: [Aerogear-users] Unified Push Server - Anyway to delete notifications when in background?

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Rob Willett < rob.aerogear(a)robertwillett.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > We’ve got the Unified Push Server working on the OpenShift > platform. > No real issues once we’d understood the point of aliases. > > We can send notifications quite happily and see whats going on. We > use > Perl for our backend servers and so we wrote a small Perl interface. > If > anybody wants the code for the Perl interface let me know and we’ll > pass it on. We can’t claim a lot of credit for a simple piece of > code > :) > sure, I think that would be awesome, if you could publish it on github. We will promote if for other perl users! > > Anyway, one of edge use-cases would be to delete notification or set > of > notifications when the app is running but in the background on iOS. > > We want to do this as the user can receive a high number of > notifications (> 10) when the app is in the background. Notifications > come in groups and provide traffic updates, so a user may get a new > group of 3-4 traffic updates, this new group completely supersedes > ANY > previous update. Our data is valuable when fresh and useless when > over > 10 minutes old. > > Whilst we can simply ignore old notifications, UX testing has shown > the > users don’t like having old notifications sitting round. We know > that > the users can delete them individually or delete the lot from the > notification drawer OR can simply bring the app out of the background > BUT they don’t like doing that. > > So what we want to do is delete old notifications, we were hoping for > the ability to call a JavaScript function with say a parameter to > identify notifications by a group or something, but we could accept > deleting the lot and inserting local notifications instead. > > We know that we can send content-available and have stuff pulled from > a > server in the background. This option is quite difficult for us and > has > some complexity identifying when the app is not started up. The > simplest > option is delete some or all of the notifications. > > Does anybody know if this is possible or any other suggestions? > I think that's an interesting idea. Erik Jan recently did an update for message, on Cordova, to actually stack em: https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-cordova-push/pull/81 Perhaps we could have a 'delete' feature too. Mind filing a JIRA against: https://issues.jboss.org/projects/AGCORDOVA (you need to have an account in order create tickets) Cheers! Matthias > > Thanks > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Aerogear-users mailing list > Aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-users > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf _______________________________________________ Aerogear-users mailing list Aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-users