Activate push notifications
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- UpdatedJan 30, 2025
- 2 minutes to read
- Yokohama
- Notifications
Several plugins must be activated to use push notifications. If you have the Mobile UI (com.glide.ui.m) plugin active, push notification plugins are automatically activated.
Before you begin
Role required: admin
About this task
- Push Notification: Provides the necessary components and REST APIs to send push notifications to mobile devices.
- Notification System Push Addon: Adds support for push notifications to the existing notification system.
- Push Feedback: Handles feedback from Apple on which devices are no longer valid so they do not keep receiving push notifications.
Procedure
Related Content
- Push notification system
The push notification system involves several key elements that manage the delivery of push messages and push notification responses.
- Installed with push notifications
Several types of components are installed with the push notifications plugins.
- Push notification properties
Push notifications provides several properties to customize the setup.
- Push notification setup with the ServiceNow mobile app
The ServiceNow mobile application automatically enables push notifications and configures mobile devices for push notifications when users initially log in to the instance.
- Push notification setup with a custom push application for ServiceNow mobile apps
If you are using your own custom mobile or push application, you must configure your app for use and set up the push contents.
- Requeue failed push notification messages
Push notification delivery might fail for various reasons. You can view which messages failed and requeue them to be sent out if necessary.
- Push notification retention
You can archive and eventually destroy push notifications that you no longer need or if your Push Notification table is excessively large.