Summary
In this guide, we will show you how to create and send push notifications.
You can send push notifications to your users to communicate directly with your audience, and help keep your users engaged. For example, you might like to communicate new rewards, latest news, challenge reminders and marketing messages to your community.
Step by Step Guide
1. From the home page go to the Moves module.
2. Go to App Notifications
3. Click on Create New Notification
4. Fill in the details
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Enter a Title for the message.
- Add the message to the Body (simple) - max. 255 characters.
- This is the plain text interpretation of the message and will appear on the push notification itself.
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Copy the Body (simple) message to the Body (full) text box, or create a new message (max. 1,024 characters).
- This is a more advanced content editor that will be displayed in full (including markdown features such as bold, italics, images, links) in the Moves+ app Inbox.
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Click Send.
- Please note that once you click send the message will go out to all users (this can not be undone).
Pro Tip:
You can choose to use different text in the Body simple and full boxes, although it’s common to use the same content.
Text formatting: Markdown
You can use markdown features for:
• Group/Challenge/Reward descriptions.
• Group posts.
• Terms of service (in settings).
• Push notifications.
Markdown features include:
• Bold.
• Italics.
• Strikethrough.
• Headers.
• Links - you must include the full web-address for the link to show (e.g., https://www.google.co.uk) you can test the
link works before you save (just use the 'preview' icon and click the link).
• Pictures - these will render across the full width of the user's phone screen if you use (500X333 or bigger) if you use a
smaller image, it will appear smaller on the phones.
Anywhere that you see body (simple) the text will appear as normal for users. Anywhere you see body (full) it will appear with markdown if you have used markdown features.
You are recommended to use the ‘eye’ icon to preview how text will appear on the app before saving.