David,

Thanks for the guide. How does one go about customizing the notification icons to be different from the launcher icons when using this app?

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Grayson

May I know where to find the SendNotificationToUser server action? Which plugin? Thanks

Why would you unregister the device on logout?  Would that not stop the device from receiving push notifications?

Jason,

That could be a valid business reason. If a user logs out of any of my business apps that I, as business data owner, don't want them to receive push messages with potential confidential information. For a B2C app without logon (like a project app to inform your stakeholders/neighborhood) you could choose to only register the device since the message will then be public by definition.

Hello David, i've sent you a message but i guess you didn't notice so i just post the question here.

I am new to Outsystems, currently developing a mobile app for client's internal employee. According to the guides from the Firebase forge component, the UserId (the user identifier of the user that'll receive the push notification) only can be used if the identifier obtained from Outsystems Users DB. What if I create a new entity that contains employees information and use the Identifier from that entity as a parameter Firebase push notification? Is it possible? Or it only works for Outsystems Users DB?

Thanks before.

David Sousa 

I'm working on iOS and Android push notification. On Android, able to receive notification. Where as on iOS not able to receive.

I cross checked the certificates, generating app on React-Native with same firebase environment. There seems no issue with certificates. 

Can you please, let me know, what could be any other reason that would cause the issue. It has been more than 2 weeks, stuck with this issue. No way to move forward.

Hi all,

I've just tested sending a notification for an iOS device and it works (using plugin version 1.0.7).

I'll need some more context in order to help you.

Have you tried sending a push notification by directly calling the Firebase API?

How are you setting the iOS app configuration on the Firebase console? Using authentication key or certificates?

Can you please try the following:

1. Generate new p8 file in Apple Developer
2. Set the p8 file in the Firebase console (with correct key and team ID's)
3. Set the p8 file and generate a new mobile app build
4. Install the new mobile app build
5. Test receiving push notification

David Sousa

Can you please explain, why I'm able to receive notification on foreground on iOS?

That can help me to narrow down problem. 

The logic implementation of foreground vs background

Hi there,

I re-tested the push notifications on a different iOS app and once again it worked as intended. Notifications are delivered independently of the status of the app.

There's no specific logic implementation for foreground or background. The plugin adds the Firebase SDK to the build, which is responsible for handling notifications. My wild guess is that the device isn't registering correctly with APN's because of some wrong configurations and the notification you receive with the app on foreground is actually a data message, which doesn't rely on APN's (check Firebase documentation here).

My advice would be to:

• review the configuration and check again the setup of certificates / APNs
• give me some more context (which plugins you have besides Firebase, Firebase API call request/responses, etc)
• debug your app so that you find the issue by yourself

Cumps,

David

Hi David,

Am the colleague of Kalyan , we are getting the following issue:Error installing Cordova plugin: cordova-plugin-firebase.In iOS on 2020-02-13 at 16:53:17 - Error installing Cordova plugin: cordova-plugin-firebase.

Steps we have followed to build the app:

1)Created Firebase application for both ios and android.

2)Uploaded APNS for ios in firebase console.

3)Downloaded plist and googleservices.json and made zip and attached under resources file. and deployed it in the target directory.(with the firebase.appidentifier).

4)We have used Firebase Mobile 1.0.6 version and MABS 5.2 version.(we are using outsystems 11)

5)For build generation we have added developer certificate and provisioning profile.

what else we have missed please let us know help us in solving this issue .

Thanks

Harish

Harish and Kalyan,

From what I understood from your private messages, the issue with the iOS notifications might be related with the ADAL plugin.

Fortunately there's an easy fix for that. If you search the ADAL plugin forums you'll find this thread with the solution:

https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/53581/ios-azure-ad-firebase-mobile-plugins-incompatibility/

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David

Hey David,

thanks we made the change it is working fine now in ios as well.

Thanks

Harish

Hello, Can you tell me about send push notification to spesific user?, i confused about this if you have example project about send push notification to spesific user can you send to this forum?? 

Thank's 

is anybody know how to setup firebase for pwa/reactive web in outsystems?

Hi - Is there a way to send push notifications with action buttons or clickable icons so that the user can respond to the notification without going into the app? In the SendNotificationToUserAction I can see the input variables ExtraDataList and Badge - what are these used for?

Hi David

I have a requirement to send firebase notification to mobile app from web app, I have setup everything but still not able to send the notification. Can you please let me know what i am doing wrong. I will attach picture of the code.

1) web app send notification to user

2) Mobile firebase

Is there an easy way to send push notifications to all registred devices without having to loop through all the users?

When I try to follow the following instruction I am unable to release the FirebaseCloudMessaging web block to any screen. What am I doing wrong?

"If you want to handle the push notifications while your users have their app open (in the foreground) you'll have to drag the FirebaseCloudMessaging web block to the required screens. We usually choose to put it in a Layout web block since that way we guarantee it'll be present in all screens. "

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Great article and thanks a lot for your help!

This video by Jay from Outsystems is also a must-watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygbu3AITS4k

It mentions the creation and addition platform config files into google-services.zip files into the mobile app, which contain the keys and IDs that make the RegisterDevice action able to tell FireBase what account to register to. I didn't try skipping it but I'm not sure how it would work without this (if it does let me know and I'll get rid of it!) 

I got cordova errors, the problem was the path to the google-services zip files wasn't quite right and it has to match the android/apple app identifiers in the distribute/configure section (which also has to match the apple bundle ID). I

I used the same firebase and apple appID accounts for dev/stg/prd (we're not using testflight) so all these IDs match on the platforms and for deployment. You won't get messages mixing up between environments because the database holding the registrations is per-each outsystems server. This might not be the same for 'topics' you that might require separate pre-prod accounts, however we didn't use that.

NO DASHES in the app ID. This goes without saying because apple will complain if you try to put them in the bundle ID name (if memory serves) and then of course, it won't match. our domain names had dashes but the real URL doesn't seem to have to match the app IDs and the path of the zip in resources. So of course things won't match up if you try this. (of course, we have variants of domains without dashes). One of the later answers here also mentions the problem. This stymied me for a few days. 

Good luck!

Hi everyone!

How can i change the push notification icon? From what i've seen the firebase has a default "green square" if not defined.

All the answers that i found were related to overriding this default setting from firebase, but its done via android configurations before building the apk, for example, changing the manifest with a few lines.

I cant figure it out how to do it here in OutSystems, does anyone have a clue? 

Thanks in advance,

Diogo