Desktop Alert Settings

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Last updated: Feb 29, 2024 by Dom Sobota
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The Settings tab allows you to configure many different options including:

  • Desktop App Name: This is the name of that will appear in a tooltip when the user hovers their mouse over the desktop notification application icon in the system tray.

  • Audible Alert: Selects the default audible alert that is played when a notification is displayed. Options are Low, Medium, and High.

  • Exit Option: Allows you to enable or disable the user’s ability to right-click the desktop notification icon and exit to tray tool. If the tool has been exited, then the device will not receive desktop notifications.

  • Confirm Acknowledge and Close: When a user is closing an alert, an additional popup will show, asking the user to confirm the closure. Set to False to disable this behaviour.

  • About URL: Allows you to specify a URL where the user can learn about the desktop notifications service. If a URL is specified, then when the user right-clicks the tray icon, an “About” context menu item will appear.  Otherwise, no “About” icon will be available or displayed in the context menu.

  • Recent Notifications URL: Allows you to specify a URL where the user can view past notifications. If a URL is specified, then when the user right-clicks the tray icon a “Recent Notifications” context menu item will appear. Otherwise, no “Recent Notifications” icon will be available or displayed in the context menu.

  • Show "Acknowledge and Close" Button: Allows the user to close the alert. If set to false, the user cannot close the alert, and will remain until the alert subsides or the AutoClose timer is elapsed.

  • Show "Edit Server URL" When Disconnected: Adjust the server url of the application to point to another location.

  • Windows Toast Notifications:

  • Associate Devices with User Accounts:

  • Desktop Panic Alerts: When enabled, the user can initiate a panic alert by triple clicking the desktop notification icon, or using a specially configured desktop notification icon that launch the app using the /PANIC command line switch.

  • Panic Initiated User Notification Text: When a user initiates a panic alert, the text entered will be displayed as a toast or balloon notification. If left blank, no notification is displayed to the user who initiated the panic alert.

  • Restrict Panic Alert These Groups: Only allow Panic alerts to made by devices that exist in the chosen groups.

  • Position: Allows you to specify the position and size for all desktop alerts. This is specified by 4 numbers, in the following order: Position (Left,Top,Width,Height) (e.g.: 50,50,50,40)

  • AutoClose (Seconds): Automatically close any triggered alerts after a predefined amount of time (in seconds)

  • Visible: Make the DesktopNotification icon visible or not in the computers system tray

Press “Save Changes” to commit the changes you’ve made to the settings.