Sending messages
Once your users are subscribed to a channel or two, you can send messages to them!
Think of a message as a standard BF Action that is triggered externally. It can even contain data to populate the page, but you don't have to wait for a user to click a button, run a utility hook, or even poll your server for updates on a set interval.
BF Action
Authenticated Channels
The BF action messageSend can be used to send a message to channel or channels. It requires a channel key to be set under options.
Example
options.channel
Full action reference:
Anonymous channel
The BF action messageSendAnonChannel can be used to send a message to channel or channels. It requires a channel key to be set under options.
Example
options.channel
Full action reference:
FileMaker Script
The script is available in Helper file and is called API - Send Message. This script accepts an object with four keys message, channels, apiKey and domain.
message
: it accepts an object with:actions
: array of BF action objects;model
: object with model data;app
: object with app model data.
channels
: string of channel name or array of strings;apiKey
: API key from corresponding app;domain
: domain to send message to.
Example Parameter
API endpoint /message/sendmessage
API: Send Message
POST
https://yourdomain.com/message/sendmessage
Headers
Request Body
Example request body
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