Enabling mobile app messages (push notifications)

Several one-time setup tasks must be completed to enable IBM Engage to send Mobile App Messages (push notifications).

About this task

This task outlines the main steps.

Procedure

  1. IBM Provisioning enables Mobile App Messages for the Engage organization.
  2. The Engage Org Admin grants Mobile App Messages permissions for the Engage user.
  3. The Engage user creates one or multiple app keys in the Engage UI. To do this, the Engage user needs the Apple certificate for IOS and/or Google API key for Android from the mobile app developer.
  4. The mobile app developer downloads the SDK and uses the SDK and the Engage app key to build the apps.
  5. The Engage Org Admin or Engage user enables a flexible database for the Mobile App Message. It can be a new or existing database.
    Note: Each Engage organization can have only one mobile app-enabled database. If you are using Email, SMS, and Push channels in the integration, use a separate database for each channel.