Send custom push notifications to all or specific users of your mobile app by
using the push console in the mobile channel.
For example, your company does
monthly accounting of all expense reports that the employees submit. In the mobile app that
handles expense reporting, you can send all managers a reminder to review the pending expense
reports before the deadline for the current month.
You can test the configuration and connection of push
notifications, and then send push notifications to all or specific users of your app. You can
also verify whether a message is sent, check the date and time of a send-out, or review the
list of intended recipients.
To receive the notifications, users must install the app on a
device and sign in to the app at least once.
Open your mobile channel:
In the navigation pane of
App Studio, click Channels.
In the Current channel interfaces section, click
the tile that represents a mobile channel for your app.
On the mobile channel page, access the push console by clicking the
Manage tab.
In the Push notifications section, click the Push new
notification button.
In the Send push notification window, click the
Test tab, and then click the Test push
connection button.
Result: The push console runs a check on the status of the configuration, connection,
and service of push notifications for iOS and Android.
If errors occur, click Download log to obtain more information
about the cause of the issue.
In the Send push notification window, click the
Live tab, and then select the target audience for the push
notification:
To send the message to all users of the mobile app, click
Everyone.
To send the message only to specific users, click Recipient
list, and then enter a space-separated list of operator IDs.
In the Message field, enter your message, and then click the
Send now button.
Click Submit.
Optional: To verify the status of the messages that you send from the push notification console,
review the push notification history:
In the Push notifications section, analyze the list of
previously sent messages to various users of your app.
If a recipient signs in to the app on more than one device, the list includes
several entries for the recipient, which are grouped in the
Audience column.
Optional: To display a list of intended recipients of the message, in the
Audience column, click the target audience that you want to
investigate.
Optional: To clear the contents of the push notification history, click Clear
history.
This action permanently removes the current message history.
Example:
Figure: Sending push notifications with the push console
