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How to schedule a tile notification (HTML)

Note  Not using JavaScript? See How to schedule a tile notification (XAML).

 

This topic shows how to schedule a tile notification to appear at a specific time.

What you need to know

Technologies

  • Windows Runtime

Prerequisites

Instructions

Step 1: Specify a template

Before you can specify the delivery time, you must create the notification.

Note  When getTemplateContent is called on a Windows 8 system, it returns a version 1 template. When this method is called on a Windows 8.1 system, it returns a version 2 template or a version 3 template in case of phone-only templates. However, if an app specifies Windows 8 compatibility in its manifest, this method returns a version 1 template regardless of the Windows version. In this topic, we'll use a version 2 template.

 


var template = Windows.UI.Notifications.Tile.tileSquare150x150Text01;                        
var tileXml = Windows.UI.Notifications.TileUpdateManager.getTemplateContent(template);

Step 2: Provide tile notification content

We won't cover this here because it's the same for a scheduled notification as for a non-scheduled notification. For more information, see Quickstart: Sending a tile update.

Step 3: Specify the time that the tile notification should be delivered

This example specifies that the notification should appear in 3 seconds. This example uses the JavaScript Date object to retrieve the current time.


var currentTime = new Date();
var startTime = new Date(currentTime.getTime() + 3 * 1000);

Step 4: Create the scheduled tile notification object

Send the tile notification content and the scheduled delivery time to the constructor.

var scheduledTile = new Windows.UI.Notifications.ScheduledTileNotification(tileXml, startTime);

Step 5: Optional: Give the scheduled tile notification an ID

This ID must be 16 characters or less.

scheduledTile.id = "Future_Tile";

Step 6: Add your tile notification to the schedule.

Create the TileUpdater object, which in turn is used to add your notification to the schedule.


var tileUpdater = Windows.UI.Notifications.TileUpdateManager.createTileUpdaterForApplication();
tileUpdater.addToSchedule(scheduledTile);

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