I can set the level of alert so that my iPhone only vibrates if the alert is not critical, or If something requires my immediate attention, my iPhone will scream like a banshee until I deal with the situation. I love this becuase now I have scripts that run throughout the day checking on the state of my System and alerting me if anything warrents my attention.

Since ScriptMaster runs on FileMaker Server as well, I can even have Server Side scripts sending Push Notifications to my iPhone. I created a ScriptMaster module that installs a new External Function called “prowlSend” the full function call looks like this: prowlSend( apiKey app event description priority )Īll you need is a single script step to send the Alert! This makes it super simple to send Push Notifications to my iPhone. And since my favorite FileMaker plug-in, ScriptMaster, speaks Groovy I was on my way. You can set your Prowl app to play different sounds based on the level alert! Perfect! Then, following a link on Prowls website I discovered a Groovy class for sending Alerts to Prowl from neilspeter. Prowl can send 5 different levels of alerts, just like the Growl Desktop apps. Prowl allows you to send Push Notifcations to your iPhone.

And it was almost free!įirst I discovered Prowl, a Growl client for the iPhone. I needed something that would make different sounds based on what kind of alert was coming in. I started using Twitter, and while that works ok, the alerts would get lost in my twitter stream. Recently I had the need to send alerts to my iPhone from my FileMaker system.

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