How to send a test deep link in urban airship

Question

Im having issues trying to find out how to send a test deep link message via urban airship.

In my production urban airship account I can clearly see a section where i can create messages with deep links:

But in my development urban airship account there is no section to add this deep link message - the only access I have is to a basic test harness like below:

Do you not have access to the deep linking options for a reason? Im assuming I could even send a deep link by modifying the raw payload - but i cant see any docs on this.

Can someone point me into the right direction in regards to this - would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to pre-configure a deeplink for it to appear as an option (both in production and test). To do so go to the Settings (at the bottom of the left panel) and then Configuration. Make sure that in the "Composer configuration" "Landing Page, Deep Link, URL, and Add Tags" is ON. Under the Deep link tab press "News deep link". The name is what will appear later on in the message composer and the url is what information you'll want to send to the app through the notification. Read more bout it here: http://docs.urbanairship.com/user-guide/message-composer.html#configure-deep-links

For the iOS implementation read this: http://docs.urbanairship.com/topic-guides/ios-deep-linking.html#customizing-the-deep-link-action

Answer 2

You can also add the 'extra' param in the payload on the 'Test Push' page ( https://go.urbanairship.com/apps/.../test/push/#ios ). UA uses the key "^d" for deeplinks:

{
    "audience": {
        "device_token": "..."
    },
    "notification": {
        "alert": "Test",
        "ios": {
            "extra": {"^d":"..."},
            "badge": 0
        }
    },
    "device_types": [
        "ios"
    ]
}