Preferably the latter. Also, a visual alert, on the PWA, so users will open should a status change, if possible.
The latter for me. Would be great if we could send dynamic notifications to specific users based on a change in a record, etc.
Currently about to start rebuilding our app in flutterflow because of this one missing feature.
I am a little surprised you struggle to understand use cases here. Any app with messaging will want push notifications to notify users when they get a new message. Any app with any type of alert to its users NEEDS push notification to function (i.e. you have been assigned a taskā¦ you received a new orderā¦ new commentā¦ etcā¦ etcā¦).
I actually struggle to understand the point of mobile PWA if there are no push notifications.
So yes everyone with an app probably wants action-based push notifications.
This can be done with automations (Zapier/Make/Airtable) already.
Sorry weāve missed you on this one. The use case is outside of our main focus at the moment, and while we would like to complete it in the future, weāre very focused on making our core use case the best that we can.
Our app actually has a āNotificationsā table, which links to users in our āUserā table. So when you login to our app, you can actually see how many active notifications are present for that user. We display this by utilizing a Shoelace pulsing badge.
This works well, but it would be great to have the notification badge icon on the desktop/mobile PWA as well- most apps do this natively.
So in theory, A new notification is created based on whatever automation/manual action (new record in notifications table) and the PWA icon badge will update, showing the notification badge as well as options for banners & sounds (whatever the device supports).
Could you expand on this, please? Itās easy enough to send email/Teams/Slack notifications, sure, but Iāve not encountered an easy way to send dynamic push notifications to mobile PWA users. Every push notification service, to my limited understanding, seems to want to install a service worker or something to the website/app, which again to my limited understanding isnāt easily possible with Softr. How would I identify a userās device?
Oh, youāre right Matt. I meant sending notifications, but not push notifications.
Also, @Nocodeking has a good solution as well!
Damn, I was hoping to be wrong
I wonder if anyone has come up with any solution for mobile notifications that donāt involve the user subscribing to separate appā¦?
Hi yaāll, iāve been digging deeper into this for you all.
There are some options to make it work with Softr, but it requires some custom coding and external services. Weāve had one customer make push notifications work using https://pusher.com/ and it required them to also upload files to our servers and was a complex setup.
So long story short, Softr does not provide out of the box yet, but depending on how determined you are, there are ways to make this happen from technical POV.
So if itās something that you really need, and are willing to do the work, message me about it and Iāll do what I can from our side to help you make it happen.
Appreciate the transparency, and its good to know there is an option, if determined. Iāll bear this in mind.
I am looking to send my users notifications from cometchat. It seems like a similar process as pusher. I tried a few months ago but wasnāt able to. Definitely willing to ādo the workā to make this work if you guys are willing to help it would be great.
Really need push notifications for my Ecommerce app.
Some examples of my use case as follows;
- New Enquiry received (notifies all sellers)
- New Quote received (notifies buyer)
- New product Offer (notifies buyers)
- New Bid (Notifies seller)
- Add to Shopping Cart (flashes Cart when product added to Shopping Cart)
It interests me to put it in place on my applications! must be used the pusher tool if I understand correctly?
We could assist only ways that are required for us to take action (By uploading files to server, etc) to finish your integration.
@FloAPI weāve had someone get this working in the past using Pusher and Softr, but it may be possible with other services as well.
Iām interested. What tool can we use?
Hi All
Iāve managed to get push notices working with a bit of custom code itās fairly simple and easy to get working on Softr once you understand how the ask works
Iām able to send pushes to all types of devices, individual users or groups of users
I used onesignal to get this working, everyoneās use case will probably be a bit different but I can create a thread explaining what Iāve done and setup to achieve this Iāve got it working with supabase /postgres but can work with any data sources
There is some one signal costs attached Pricing - OneSignal
Amazing work @Zaque7 !! Weād love for you to put together a thread or a video showcasing this for other users when you have a moment
Iāll even send you something special once you do Thanks!
Would be very interested to see this thread!
Hi All
Will post something in the upcoming week on how to get it working