Block reference / General

Notification

Shows a desktop notification from WarpX Browser with a title and a message.

In both appsWarpX BrowserWarpX Phone

Use Notification to tell yourself that something happened during a run: results were saved, a check failed, a step needs your attention. WarpX Browser shows it as an ordinary notification on your computer, not inside the profile's browser. The run carries on straight away.

The Notification block's settings, filled in as in the example below.

Settings

Description

A note shown under the block's name on the canvas. It has no effect on the run.

ExampleSay the orders are saved
Title

The notification's heading. References such as {{variables.shopName}} are filled in first. Left empty, the heading is WarpX.

ExampleOrders saved
Message

The text under the title. References are filled in first.

ExampleSaved the orders for {{variables.shopName}}.
Icon URL (optional)

An http or https address of a picture to show as the notification's icon. The profile's browser fetches it, through the profile's proxy. If the picture cannot be loaded, the notification is shown without it and the block still succeeds.

Examplehttps://example.com/icon.png

Every block also has the shared block settings — a description, Disable block and what to do on an error. Fields that take text accept data from earlier blocks.

What it hands on

Nothing. The block leaves by its single output as soon as the notification is sent. On a system that cannot show notifications, it fails instead.

Example: Get told when a run has saved its results

  1. Start
  2. Open URL
  3. Get text
  4. Google Sheets
  5. Notification
Where Notification sits in the example workflow.
  1. In the Start block, add an Input (string) parameter named shopName.
  2. After the blocks that collect the orders, add a Google Sheets block that writes them to your sheet.
  3. Connect a Notification block after it and double-click it.
  4. Set Title to Orders saved and Message to Saved the orders for {{variables.shopName}}.
  5. Run the workflow. The notification appears on your desktop once the rows are written.

On WarpX Phone

  • On WarpX Phone the notification still shows on this computer, not on the phone. Icon URL is fetched by a profile's browser, which a phone run does not have, so the notification is shown without the picture.

Good to know

  • On a system that cannot show notifications at all, the block fails with an error that says "This system does not show notifications". Use the block's error settings if the run should carry on.
  • If your system can show notifications but they are turned off for WarpX Browser in its settings, nothing appears and the block still reports success. The app cannot see that setting.
  • In a run over many profiles, each profile that reaches this block shows its own notification. Put a profile-specific reference in the message if you need to tell them apart.
  • There is no Image URL field: the notifications WarpX Browser shows have no room for a large image. An older workflow that has one set shows its notification without the image.

See also

  • Get log data — Read the log of a workflow that is running, as a list of entries.
  • HTTP request — Sends an HTTP request to a URL and can store the response.
  • Workflow state — Stop the current run, optionally as a failure with your own message, or stop other runs.