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[Resolved] Show new notification without having to refresh?

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    Alayna on April 9, 2016 at 5:09 pm #3430

    It seems that by default, you have to refresh to see any new notifications in Buddypress. Is there a way to make it so that the new notification is fetched live without having to manually refresh? I’ve seen this being done on a premium theme once, looked like it used heartbeat, redux or something of the sort? Any help would be appreciated!

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    Alayna on April 9, 2016 at 5:11 pm #3431

    Sorry, I meant to post this in How-Tos & Troubleshooting but I can’t move it.

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    Ravi on April 9, 2016 at 5:19 pm #3432

    Hi Alayna,

    Thank You for posting, Yes you can achieve this functionality using one our free plugin named “BuddyPress Live Notification”. It works exactly like your requirement. Please refer the following Link

    https://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-live-notification/

    Thank You
    Ravi

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    Alayna on April 9, 2016 at 9:27 pm #3437

    Hello again Ravi and thanks for your response.

    I have installed the plugin and it works great for the default admin bar notifications however I coded notifications into my custom header and it isn’t showing the live updates there.

    Here is the code for the notifications that I have in functions.php in my child theme: http://pastebin.com/ciQL8C5C

    And I call that code from header.php using <?php my_bp_adminbar_notifications_menu()?>

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    Brajesh Singh on April 10, 2016 at 9:38 am #3440

    Hi Alayna,
    Ravi will be away for a few more hours, so I am posting here.

    Since you have different elements, you will need to bind to ‘bpln:new_notifications’ event in javascript and handle it as you wish.

    Please see the code below to find what data you can access
    https://github.com/sbrajesh/bp-live-notification/blob/master/assets/js/bpln.js#L128

    Hope that helps.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Alayna on April 26, 2016 at 7:53 am #3705

    Hi Brajesh,
    I’m revisiting this and having quite a bit of difficulty. Could you please give me a brief description on how to bind to ‘bpln:new_notifications’, if it’s not a bother? Thanks!

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    Ravi on April 26, 2016 at 1:56 pm #3706

    Hi Alayna,

    Please refer the following url as I have bind a callback function to this event here

    https://github.com/buddydev/bp-live-notification-tone/blob/master/assets/js/bp-live-notification-tone.js#L11

    Thank You
    Ravi

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    Alayna on April 26, 2016 at 5:49 pm #3712

    Thank you, that shines a little more light on how to do so but the audio elements are throwing me off a bit.

    How do I replace “ion.sound.play(‘bell_ring’);” with a div? Since I need to bind it to the notification count, right?

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    Ravi on April 27, 2016 at 7:26 am #3714

    Hi Alayna,

    You can do something like this.

    
  jQuery(document).on( 'bpln:new_notifications', function( event, res ){

        // pass count selector here
        jQuery('#count').text(res.count); //to show no. of count
        // pass message selector here
        jQuery('#message').html(res.messages);
        //alert(res.count);
    });

    Thank You
    Ravi

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    Alayna on April 30, 2016 at 6:34 am #3725

    Thank you, I gave that a try and successfully tied the event to the count, but whenever a new notification came in, the count would just go down to 1 and stay there instead of increasing.

    I can’t seem to get this working successfully so I think I’m going to give up here. Might hire a developer for it.

    Thank you for your help regardless!

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