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pratpor
pratpor

Reputation: 2104

Send IconicTile Notification in Windows Phone

I am trying to send Iconic Tile Notification from Server to Client using node2dm. Node2dm provides us with 'mpns' module which I am using to send Messages. I want my notification to look like the first tile in the image and not like the second one. enter image description here

Now I have two issue.

=>. First is, I am able to send notifications of second type where notification count appears in a circle. But I am not able to clear that notification count. I used

mpns.sendTile(pushUri, backgroundImage, count, title, backBackgroundImage)

for this. I tried sending count=0 for clearing the notification from tile but it didn't work.

=>. Second problem is, I tried sending notification of first type from above image since I was not able to clear the notification count for previous one. And also this looks more elegant. For this I used

mpns.sendIconicTile(pushUri, backgroundColor, count, title, iconImage, smallIconImage, wideContent1, wideContent2, wideContent3)

But with this. I am not even getting any tile update at all. There is an option of providing id in sendIconicTile() function, but I dont know what to pass it there. I don't have an id for my tile. Its primary default tile which I am trying to update, not a secondary tile. So I think 'id' shouldn't be required.

Can someone please help me with this. Or suggest some other way to update my tile.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 191

Answers (1)

stipe
stipe

Reputation: 184

Ok, I'm not familiar with node2dm, but I'll try to help. For the first problem, if you were sending notification by yourself you would set this line <wp:Count Action="Clear"></wp:Count> in notification XML payload. Now I'm not sure if you can do that with node2dm, but they should provide a way to set that.

The second problem looks as your client application doesn't have Iconic tile template. You need to change that in you app's WMAppManifest.xml. It needs to look something like this

<Tokens>
  <PrimaryToken TokenID="YouAppNameToken" TaskName="_default">
    <TemplateIconic>
      <SmallImageURI IsResource="false" IsRelative="true">TileIcon.png</SmallImageURI>
      <Count>0</Count>          
      <IconImageURI IsResource="false" IsRelative="true">TileIcon.png</IconImageURI>
      <Title>Your title</Title>
    </TemplateIconic>        
  </PrimaryToken>
</Tokens>

Upvotes: 1

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