Desktop Notifications

therealsujitk

I'm currently very happy with the notification system at flarum, it's very powerful no doubt. I was just wondering if maybe in future it was possible to send those same notifications as desktop notifications as well? And/Or maybe a melody alert whenever a notification is received. Could be extremely helpful.

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therealsujitk there is a onesignal extension for flarum, that will send notifications, but that if course relies on the browser remaining open and isn't an independent desktop agent.

therealsujitk

[deleted] Thanks! This is just what I've been looking for. I installed the extension, but I'm facing some issues.

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therealsujitk what's the issue ? I know there are some nuances with this extension and I haven't installed it myself, but there's a variety of information in that thread, and others who have successfully installed it will be able to help.

Edit - perhaps @hrvoje_hr can help here.

therealsujitk

[deleted] As of now, I registered on OneSignal with the correct site URL, Everything is HTTPS so I didn't select the 'Some pages do not have HTTPS' and hence I have no OneSignal sub-domain. I finished setting up everything on the site.

I installed the extension, added the appID, API Key and the User Key, left the Subdomain Blank, Set the length of excerpt to 50, checked 'Show permission prompt immediately to authorize users' and finally clicked save changes.

So far there has not been any prompt on my site asking me to allow notifications 🙁

Is there any step I'm missing?

hrvoje_hr

therealsujitk do you have or did you have any other One Signal app installed on the site before?

Also, is your forum in a subfolder?

hrvoje_hr

therealsujitk left the Subdomain Blank

If you are on subdomain maybe you should enter a subdomain, not leave it blank?

therealsujitk

hrvoje_hr No and no. My forum is directly on the subdomain.

therealsujitk

hrvoje_hr I just realised that you have to go to settings and select enable push notifications in your profile (I thought it would automatically ask to allow notifications). I did that, but it still doesn't seem to be working. I allowed notifications, but on the OneSignal Dashboard it shows 0 Users

therealsujitk

hrvoje_hr No, doesn't work.

therealsujitk

But it asks for OneSignal sub domain.... Which is the same as the label. Anyway, let me try and see what happens.

therealsujitk

On their docs it says that the OneSignal subdomain is the label and is only required if you don't use https completely.

hrvoje_hr

I don't know then. You did everything as I did. Another stupid question: did you check your address bar for site and notification settings?

One more thing: did you move files from /vendor/nikovonlas/flarum-ext-web-push/upload/ to public folder?

therealsujitk

hrvoje_hr Yes, it allows notifications

I didn't move anything, plus I dont have a 'public' folder since i installed flarum in the root directory.

therealsujitk

hrvoje_hr Am I supposed to move those files? (3 of them in total)

therealsujitk

hrvoje_hr It worked! I didn't know you were supposed to move those files. Thankyou so much!!!

hrvoje_hr

therealsujitk It worked! I didn't know you were supposed to move those files. Thank you so much!!!

Yeah, I've missed them my first time too, despite being noted in the first post.

luceos

Sounds like the extension developer should implement the Lifecycle Hooks, which allows publishing files when enabled/disabled.