Settings explanation?

[Fofer]

I've set up Notify Pro on my iPhone to use Notify.io to send
notifications of incoming calls/texts/push alerts to my MacBook Pro.
Working great. I have some questions about notify.io's Setting page
though:

I set the icon, that works great and spruces up the alerts a bit.

I am curious what the specifying of URL is actually for? What is the
purpose of entering a URL there? Clicking the Growl alert only makes
the alert disappear, it doesn't take me to any website, even if I
populate that "Website URL" field. So I'm just wondering...

Also, what does "I want to send notifications with this account"
actually do (in basic terms?) I ask because with my setup, alerts get
sent with it checked or not checked. I was thinking that checkbox
needs to be checked in order for everything to work... but even with
it unchecked, it all works too. That made me wonder.

Thanks for any explanation...

Josh

[John Dyer]

I would certainly like to be able to click an alert and have it open a
browser! Is this possible?

-John

[Jeff Lindsay]

Sorry for the confusion. The Settings on that page are your Source settings. The icon is the default icon used for notifications without an icon, however (and I can see the confusion here) Website URL is not the default link used for a notification. Website URL is used in your Source profile to help people receiving notifications from you decide if they actually want to approve you.

You *can* specify a "link" in your notifications, however the client has to support opening a browser for that link. Nio supports this, I haven't tried Notify Pro yet.

-jeff

--
Jeff Lindsay
http://webhooks.org -- Make the web more programmable
http://shdh.org -- A party for hackers and thinkers
http://tigdb.com -- Discover indie games
http://progrium.com -- More interesting things

[Josh Rafofsky]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Lindsay <prog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You *can* specify a "link" in your notifications, however the client has to
> support opening a browser for that link. Nio supports this, I haven't tried
> Notify Pro yet.
> -jeff

Gotcha, thanks. At the very least I'm thinking it'd be nice to be
able to click the notification alert, and have it simply take me to
http://www.notify.io/history

[Jeff Lindsay]

Are you talking about from Nio or from Notify Pro? Like I said it's up to the source to provide the link and the client to support it. We provide a way to specify a URL that can be used when you click a notification.

-jeff

[Fofer]

Okay, got it, I asked the Notify Pro developer here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p=501527&postcount=280

On Feb 4, 9:02 am, Jeff Lindsay <progr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you talking about from Nio or from Notify Pro? Like I said it's up to
> the source to provide the link and the client to support it. We provide a
> way to specify a URL that can be used when you click a notification.
>
> -jeff
>

> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Josh Rafofsky <userfrien...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Lindsay <progr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > You *can* specify a "link" in your notifications, however the client has
> > to
> > > support opening a browser for that link. Nio supports this, I haven't
> > tried
> > > Notify Pro yet.
> > > -jeff
>
> > Gotcha, thanks.  At the very least I'm thinking it'd be nice to be
> > able to click the notification alert, and have it simply take me to
> >http://www.notify.io/history
>
> --

> Jeff Lindsayhttp://webhooks.org-- Make the web more programmablehttp://shdh.org-- A party for hackers and thinkershttp://tigdb.com-- Discover indie gameshttp://progrium.com-- More interesting things