With the notifications plugin for an external client app, you can subscribe the mobile app to custom notification types. Enable the notifications plugin, and subscribe the mobile app to notification types in External Client App Manager.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Professional, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To configure the notifications plugin for external client apps: | Create, edit, and delete External Client Apps |
Before you begin, make sure that the custom notification types you want to subscribe to are enabled for the mobile delivery channel. You can use Notification Builder in Setup to configure a notification type for the mobile delivery channel. See Manage Notification Delivery Settings.
- In External Client App Manager, create an external client app.
- Enable the OAuth plugin for the external client app. Enabling OAuth is required for sending notifications.
- In the external client app’s settings, click Notification Settings to expand the section.
- Select Enable Notifications.
- In the list under Notification Subscriptions, subscribe to notification types by selecting the toggle next to the title of the notification type.
- To send the notification type as a push notification on the mobile device, select Send as a push notification.
Note To send a notification type as a push notification, you must also configure the push notification plugin. - After you subscribe to and configure the relevant notification types, click Create.