Acknowledgement of/Interaction with Notification

[tvinci]

Hello AppSheet,

How do I have users interact with notifications? I would like the user to acknowledge the notification, and when they acknowledge it, a value in the spreadsheet should switch to “true.”

[GreenFlux · Accepted solution]

You could send a LINKTOFORM() to a pre-filled form to log the acknowledgement.

But the user would still have to hit SAVE and upload the form. You can not track the user’s interaction with the app-notification itself.

[GreenFlux]

I’ve just submitted a feature request that would allow for triggering an action when the user opens a notification. This could be used to get a direct response, without the user needing to fill out and save a form.

You can vote for it here:

New VIEW==>ACTION Trigger: Record Viewed Feature Requests

An action can be triggered when a form is submitted using the option: UX>View>Behavior>Event Action This feature request is for a new VIEW==>ACTION Trigger: RECORD VIEWED [Screen Shot 2020-07-12 at 8.55.57 PM] With the Form Saved trigger, the action runs AFTER the form is saved, allowing access to reference the values just entered. The Record Viewed trigger would need to run IMMEDIATELY BEFORE the record loads. This would only work on Detail views, or maybe Dashboards. Use Cases Auto-s…