This option is for real-time notifications, which means that you won’t need to refresh the page in case there is a notification.
Before, when new notifications for a user was added you needed to refresh the page in order the notifications to be updated. Now in this case the notification will be real time and will be shown immediately in WPS CRM on the top right side.
First you need to register to Pusher.com website to use their services. Click here to register if you haven’t registered already.
Login to pusher.com with your account and on the channels section, click Manage as shown on the screenshot below.
At the top right side, click Create App
A popup window will be shown to create your new application.
- Name your app – for example: WPS CRM
- Select a cluster – By default pusher.com will select your cluster, you can change it if its needed. You can read more here what is cluster: https://pusher.com/docs/clusters
- Frond-end tech stack – Select jQuery as shown in the image below.
- Back-end tech stasck? – Select PHP as shown in the image below
Click on Create app at the bottom of the popup modal.
After the app is created click on the App Keys sidebar menu and on the right side you will be able to see you app keys that needs to be added in Setup->Settings->Pusher.com in your WPS CRM admin area.
Add the keys to the corresponding fields.
- app_id = APP ID field
- key = APP Key field
- secret = APP Secret field
- cluster = Cluster field
After you add the keys set Enable Real Time Notifications to Yes and save setting.
That will be all when setting up Pusher.com realtime notifications with WPS CRM.
Desktop Notifications
If you are using version 1.9.0 or above you can configure desktop notifications together with Pusher, keep in mind that desktop notifications require pusher configured in order to work properly.
After you configure pusher you will be able to enable the desktop notifications as shown in the image below.
