RevengeFNF Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 This addon was created by a staff member of my site, but because its needed a license to add files to the marketplace, its me that is creating it. The reason for the creation of this extension was for users to be able to receive notifications in Chrome without the need to have the site open in a tab. It can also remember users to check back the site if it was forgotten. Basically this extension will send a check for unread notifications, displaying a badge with the unread count. You can then click the badge and it will open a popup with the site where users can see the notifications. This boilerplate uses the awesome materializacss framework. Steps to make it work: Look at the images in the folder, just change the icon and logo ones with your own with the dimensions specified in the name, so the icon 19 it will be the icon that appear in the browser and requires a 19px X 19px image, just do the same to the other images (some are no used but may be in future) Open the manifest.json file with any text editor, and change the name and description of your extension. Also change the "https://*example.com/*" with your site url. For example: "https://*invisionpower.com/*" Open the file popup.html, change the page title to your own, change the iframe url's that will be displayed and their names (forum, chat, notifications). In this boilerplate 3 iframes are inserted, The forum itself, a chat URL (in our board we have an external chat app where people login using our board credentials) and the notification center, add your owns or remove, as it pleases you Next open the file undock.html, this file's almost the same as the previous one, except that the iframe doesn't have harcoded value, so it can be redimensioned at user will, just do the same you have done to the popup. The last file you need to change it's the background.js file, here in line 35 it's the url where the extensions polls the notifications. just change the "www.example.com"... part of it with your own forum url. Also in second line you have the variable pollTime that it's the default time that the extension checks for new notifications, the default value is 300000 miliseconds, 5 minutes, you can change it but be careful with it many users hammering your board could be a problem, so adapt it to your needs. Also within a functions you have comments where you can change the value if the popup is open, for instance (it will always check for new notifications on popup open and close). In line 59 you can change the time the notification will display when user opens popup, default is 10000, 10 seconds if you want to adapt this extension to firefox, just check the firefox addon Foxified, as it will convert it without hassle, and although i'm not an firefox user, i've briefly tested it and everything seems fine That's it, you now can add this extension to the Chrome Web Store so your members can add it to their browser. (There is a 5$ one time fee) Also if you find better ways to achieve some of these functions, please share it with us here. Best Regards Link to comment
EmpireKicking Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Have you consider Firefox and others also? Link to comment
RevengeFNF Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 32 minutes ago, EmpireKickass said: Have you consider Firefox and others also? @Perks is the member of my staff that made this and converted the addon to Firefox using Foxified. It worked fine and our firefox members are using it without problems. Link to comment
RevengeFNF Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 In the next update(not yet released), it will be possible to view the notifications like the image below without cleaning them. Link to comment
Vanucci Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 once files edited, do i just compile to zip and upload to chrome store ? Also thank you for this Link to comment
RevengeFNF Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 12 minutes ago, Vanucci said: once files edited, do i just compile to zip and upload to chrome store ? Also thank you for this Yes, just zip it and upload to chrome store. You may want to wait, because we will update with a new version very soon. Link to comment
RevengeFNF Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 New version added to the marketplace. @Vanucci, before you upload the file to the Chrome Store, you can test it with your own chrome. You have an option to upload it. Link to comment
Vanucci Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Ok Thank you If you would mind sharing the chat service name in pm or something that would be cool . Link to comment
Vanucci Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Just to add, on chrome all is fine, but on fire fox it wont install through foxified as its says its corrupt. Link to comment
Gabriel Torres Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 @RevengeFNF I am a little bit lost here. As far as I know, IPS provides browser notifications out of the box. Link to comment
RevengeFNF Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 21 minutes ago, Gabriel Torres said: @RevengeFNF I am a little bit lost here. As far as I know, IPS provides browser notifications out of the box. Only if the user have the site open in a tab. This addon will give the user notifications even if he doesn't have the site open. Link to comment
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