New 7.1 video - push notifications

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New video has been added explaining how to send push notifications to mobile phones in 7.1

BenHayat

Question:

In the Mobile Subscribe action, you said it registers a phone to receive "push notification".
Then following that, you said "Creates an instance of MobilePhone object and puts it in the Context".

My question is, in order for the MobilePhone object to be in the user's Context at runtime, does it mean, every time a user mobile starts, user has to subscribe to Push notification to bring MobileObject into his Context (since Context is object created at runtime)?
It's the use of the word "Context" that has thrown me off.

Thanks!

This was the note @ 7:13 of the video.

mrbdrm

BenHayat wrote
Question:

In the Mobile Subscribe action, you said it registers a phone to receive "push notification".
Then following that, you said "Creates an instance of MobilePhone object and puts it in the Context".

My question is, in order for the MobilePhone object to be in the user's Context at runtime, does it mean, every time a user mobile starts, user has to subscribe to Push notification to bring MobileObject into his Context (since Context is object created at runtime)?
It's the use of the word "Context" that has thrown me off.

Thanks!

If you allow me to answer
you don't need to subscribe every time. this is only done one time after the app was installed (the action will create a BO with the phone details)
after that to send Push notification you only need to do your regular FIND to get the user MobilePhone in contest

BenHayat

mrbdrm wrote
you don't need to subscribe every time. this is only done one time after the app was installed (the action will create a BO with the phone details)
after that to send Push notification you only need to do your regular FIND to get the user MobilePhone in contest

This makes sense... But the video said, to "Put it in context" which is misleading. It should say, to create and put it in Database, since Context is not a permanent storage.
I brought it to clarify this important point.
Thanks for your feedback mrbdrm!

tford

But the video said, to "Put it in context" which is misleading. It should say, to create and put it in Database, since Context is not a permanent storage.

Hi Ben,

Actually it does both .. puts the mobile phone into the AwareIM database + puts that mobile phone instance into context of the process.

Because the phone just registered is now in context in the process, the process could also immediately send a confirming notification to that phone "Ben: Thanks for registering your phone registered in the ____ system".

BenHayat

tford wrote
But the video said, to "Put it in context" which is misleading. It should say, to create and put it in Database, since Context is not a permanent storage.

Hi Ben,

Actually it does both .. puts the mobile phone into the AwareIM database + puts that mobile phone instance into context of the process.

Because the phone just registered is now in context in the process, the process could also immediately send a confirming notification to that phone "Ben: Thanks for registering your phone registered in the ____ system".

Yes, but the video doesn't say it creates it in Database, just says puts it in the Context (during initial subscription), which brings up my first question, since it didn't say it creates it DB, it can be interpreted as the user has to run the subscription every time to get it to context.

Otherwise, the code should have been,
anytime user logs in, we should check for subscription (if exists) and load it into context.