@jmozer/cordova-push

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Cordova Plugin

This plugin implements the Marketing Cloud Mobile Push SDK for your applications built for iOS and Android.

Release History

Version 1.0.2

Released Jan 22, 2018

Depends on the Marketing Cloud Mobile Push iOS SDK v4.9.x
Depends on the Marketing Cloud Mobile Push Android SDK v5.3.x

• Updated Android SDK to v5.3.+
  

Version 1.0.1

Released Nov 29, 2017

Depends on the Marketing Cloud Mobile Push iOS SDK v4.9.x
Depends on the Marketing Cloud Mobile Push Android SDK v5.2.x

• Updated Android SDK to v5.2.+
  

Version 1.0.0

Released October 27, 2017

Depends on the Marketing Cloud Mobile Push iOS SDK v4.9.x
Depends on the Marketing Cloud Mobile Push Android SDK v5.0.x

• Basic Push Notification Functionality w/Audience Segmentation via Contact Key, Attributes and Tags.
• Logging - Enable/Disable Underlying SDK verbose logging

Installing the Plugin

In order to connect this plugin to your Marketing Cloud account, you must follow these provisioning and app creation steps:

• Connecting Marketing Cloud Account to your iOS App
• Connecting Marketing Cloud Account to your Android App

Once provisioning and your AppCenter app(s) are setup, install the plugin into your Cordova project with the following command:

cordova plugin add ../MarketingCloudSdk-Cordova-Plugin 
--variable APPID={YOUR_APP_ID} 
--variable ACCESSTOKEN={YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN} 
--variable GCMSENDERID={YOUR_GCM_SENDER_ID} 
--variable MCANALYTICS={enabled|disabled}
--variable CHANNELNAME={YOUR_CHANNEL_NAME}
--nosave 
--nofetch

Be sure to replace the values with your App's ID, Access Token, GCM Sender ID and Channel Name. Also, you must explicitely choose enabled or disabled for MCANALYTICS.

The following variables should be used in the cordova plugin add command:

Name	Description
APPID	The Application ID for your Salesforce Marketing Cloud AppCenter App
ACCESSTOKEN	The Access Token for your Salesforce Marketing Cloud AppCenter App
GCMSENDERID	The GCM Sender ID for your Salesforce Marketing Cloud AppCenter App
MCANALYTICS	Whether or not you wish to collect notification displayed, opened, etc. analytics
CHANNELNAME	The Channel Name for your Salesforce Marketing Cloud AppCenter App

Using the Plugin

After successful installation of your Cordova platform(s) and the plugin, you can begin using the following features of the Marketing Cloud SDK within your javascript in your Cordova app.

Requirements for using plugin

If you are building Cordova for the Android Platform, installing Android Studio is not required. However, gradle is required as a dependancy and you will be required to install the gradle build tool. https://gradle.org/install/#manually

Once you have installed the Gradle build tool, make sure you have also set the enviornment variables path. export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle/gradle-4.4.1/bin

When you have completed this, you should be able to build and run your project with the MarketingCloud-Cordova-Plugin.

MCCordovaPlugin

Use the MCCordovaPlugin object in your javascript on or after the device ready or platform ready event. All of the methods below belong to the MCCordovaPlugin object that is automatically provided by the plugin. The MarketingCloudSdk configuration and registration calls will complete behind the scenes. You can just start using MCCordovaPlugin.methodname() within your app.

Contact Key

setContactKey

Sets the Contact Key for this device.

MCCordovaPlugin.setContactKey(successCallback, errorCallback, contactKey);

getContactKey

Gets the Contact Key for this device.

MCCordovaPlugin.getContactKey(successCallback, errorCallback);

The successCallback will include a result parameter in the following format: "contactKey"

Attributes

setAttribute

Adds an attribute to current user's Contact model.

MCCordovaPlugin.setAttribute(successCallback, errorCallback, attributeName, attributeValue);

The successCallback will include a result parameter of "true" or "false":

"true"

clearAttribute

Removes an attribute from current user's Contact model.

MCCordovaPlugin.clearAttribute(successCallback, errorCallback, attributeName);

The successCallback will return the key value that has been removed:

"First Name"

getAttributes

Gets the list of attributes from the current user's Contact model.

MCCordovaPlugin.getAttributes(successCallback, errorCallback);

The successCallback will include a result parameter in the following format:

{
	"attributeName1": "attributeValue1",
	"attributeName2": "attributeValue2",		
	"attributeName3": "attributeValue3"
}

Tags

addTag

Adds a tag to the current user's Contact model.

MCCordovaPlugin.addTag(successCallback, errorCallback, tagName);

removeTag

Removes a tag to the current user's Contact model.

MCCordovaPlugin.removeTag(successCallback, errorCallback, tagName);

getTags

Gets a list of tags from the current user's Contact model.

MCCordovaPlugin.getTags(successCallback, errorCallback);

The successCallback will include a result parameter in the following format:

[
	"tag1",
	"tag2",
	"tag3"
]

Logging

enableVerboseLogging

Enable internal Marketing Cloud SDK logging

MCCordovaPlugin.enableVerboseLogging(successCallback, errorCallback);

disableVerboseLogging

Disable internal Marketing Cloud SDK logging.

MCCordovaPlugin.disableVerboseLogging(successCallback, errorCallback);

Misc

isPushEnabled

Checks persistent preferences for the state of Push.

MCCordovaPlugin.isPushEnabled(successCallback, errorCallback);

The successCallback will include a result parameter in the following format: true/false

getSystemToken

Get the System Token of the Marketing Cloud SDK.

MCCordovaPlugin.getSystemToken(successCallback, errorCallback);

The successCallback will include a result parameter in the following format: "systemToken"

enablePush

Enables push and push accessories in the SDK.

MCCordovaPlugin.enablePush(successCallback, errorCallback);

disablePush

Disables push and push accessories in the SDK.

MCCordovaPlugin.disablePush(successCallback, errorCallback);