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Introduction
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| In layman's terms, Progressive Web Application (PWA) is a type of application software that is easily installable directly via the web browser, that offers a native-like app experience to end users regardless of device variants. |
PWA promises many key capabilities as compared to regular web applications, such as:
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Read here for full details about PWA and its benefits: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/getting-started-pwa
As a brand new feature of
Since Joget DX 7, Joget apps support PWA features applications have supported PWA capabilities by default.
Installing an app
Joget allows users to easily install apps into mobile devices through compatible browsers.
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- Push Notification Tool Plugin as a Process Tool in the Joget Marketplace.
- User Notification Audit Trail Plugin in Plugin Default Properties in app properties.
- User Notification (Customizable) Audit Trail Plugin as Plugin Default Properties in the Joget Marketplace. (This plugin allows per-activity customization)
PWA Properties
Most userview UI menus support offline caching.
To configure them, you can directly edit the userview UI menu, or via the Builder Advanced Tools in the userview UI builder.
1. Select Advanced Tools in the userview UI builder.
2. Edit the userview UI menu you wish to configure PWA settings for.
3. Scroll down the Properties to select "Performance & Offline" tab, and you can configure PWA offline settings here.
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Edit PWA Offline Settings
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| Enable cache for offline support | This option allows users to cache for offline support for userview UI elements. Scope: Available in all Userview UI Menu |
| Cache list actions (Non POST action) | This option allows users to cache datalist list actions but it does not include any POST actions. Scope: Only available in Userview UI Menu that makes use of Datalist List such as CRUD, List, Datalist List Inbox Example of what will be cached: 1. New Button in CRUD Example of what will NOT be cached: 1. Delete Button in CRUD 2. JDBC Datalist List Action in List / CRUD |
| Cache all datalist links list links in first page | This option allows users to cache all links found on the first page of the datalist List links when they are offline. (i.e. Hyperlink Datalist List Action) Scope: Only available in Userview UI Menu that makes use of Datalist List such as CRUD, List, Datalist List Inbox Example of what will be cached: 1. Hyperlink Datalist List Action in List / CRUD |
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If your runtime URL is http://localhost:8080/jw/web/userviewUI/leaveApp/v/_/welcome, you can change "welcome" to "cacheUrls" in order to see the list of URLs that will be cached. |
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Users can access this setting by going through the "Properties" tab in the userview UI builder.
1. Click on Properties and then click on Theme.
2. Click on Progressive Web Application (PWA) Settings.
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Progressive Web App (PWA) Settings
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Disable Progressive Web App (PWA) Support | If checked, this will disable PWA support for the current app. |
| Disable Web Push Notifications | If checked, this will disable Web Push Notifications. |
| Additional URLs to Cache | This option allows users to cache additional URL(s) that is relative to the Context Root. |
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