Calling notifier with alert type notification has a different visual result on two tested OSes. Using the following example:

notifier --type alert --title "Company" --subtitle "Communication" --message "macOS Big Sur" --messagebutton "Info" --messagebuttonaction "https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/"

macOS 10.13.6 - Shows a Close and Info (action) button.
macOS 10.15.6 - Shows only the Info (action) button.

in the verbose log i get this error message:

Failed to validate /Applications/Utilities/Notifier.app/Contents/Resources/alert/Notifier - Alerts.app for use with identifier uk.co.dataJAR.NotifierAlerts (pid: 2959)

i have the notification profile in place, suggestions what i can try? This is on a 11.3.1 device

We're seeing notifications on Monterey showing a prohibitory symbol over our custom icon.

under macOS 11.6. using /Applications/Utilities/Notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/Notifier --type alert --message "TEST" --messageaction "/Applications/Safari.app/" does not open the app when clicking the notification.
no problem with 11.5.2
i have noticed the same misbehavior with https://github.com/sheagcraig/yo , so it is probably a general problem with 11.6 ?

Was attempting to build with my signing cert and new icons but ran in to a swift compile error. On macOS 12.0.1 - M1 - Xcode 13.1

SwiftPM - Sources - Basic - Await.swift - await

Line 18:

Value of type '(@escaping (Result<T, ErrorType>) -> Void) -> Void' has no member 'dematerialize'

code block referenced:

public func await<T, ErrorType>(_ body: (@escaping (Result<T, ErrorType>) -> Void) -> Void) throws -> T {
    return try await(body).dematerialize()
}

looks to be a dependency issue?

Notifications are really limited in the amount of information that they are able to present. Sometimes, it is needed to have the "action" open up a new window with more info on whatever the alert was about.

There are a couple of existing methods that could be used to display such a window: JamfHelper, DEPNotify, etc. However, they are either aimed at a different feature set, or are limited in customisation options, or both. Additionally, such an approach requires management of a second tool, increasing complexity.

It would be really useful to have a simple "More info" window that used the same branding/style as the notification, triggered by the Action, and which could display a text-based message. Bonus points if it supports markdown!

I appreciate that this is a significant scope creep, so I'm not really expecting it to be accepted lol. But if Ben (or anyone else) is bored in lockdown, I (for one) would really appreciate this. If I only had enough Swift knowledge (or the time to learn) I'd give it a go myself...

https://github.com/IBM/mac-ibm-notifications follows this structure and can be notarised

./Notifier --type alert --message "Please Logout" --messagebutton "Logout" --title "Logout"
ERROR: Notification Center is not running...
admins-MacBook-Pro:MacOS admin$

com.apple.notificationcenterui2 has been the bundle ID of Notification Centre up to B9.. now it’s com.apple.notificationcenteru, which is the same as any macOS before..

So can revert the changes for this and the issue with the if #available API and BS is now moot as not needed for BS checking anymore.

Just downloaded the project, updated with my signing cert and icons according to the instructions, and built a test version. It ran a banner once, which appears for a second & immediately disappears, but subsequent runs do not show anything. I switched to an alert message, and the same thing happened.

Running macOS 10.15.6. --verbose doesn't seem to show anything errors, it seems to think it ran. Running with sudo does not have an effect either.

➜ /Users/chkemp/Documents/Software\ Releases/Notifier/Notifier\ 2020-07-31\ 11-13-09/Products/Applications/Notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/Notifier --type alert --message "MacIT Notification banner" --verbose
2020-07-31 11:29:30.301 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - verbose enabled
2020-07-31 11:29:30.301 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - message
2020-07-31 11:29:30.301 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - notifierArgsArray - (
"--verbose",
"--message",
"MacIT Notification banner"
)
2020-07-31 11:29:30.301 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - type - alert
2020-07-31 11:29:30.302 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - path - /Users/chkemp/Documents/Software Releases/Notifier/Notifier 2020-07-31 11-13-09/Products/Applications/Notifier.app/Contents/Resources/alert/MacIT - Alerts.app/Contents/MacOS/MacIT - Alerts
2020-07-31 11:29:30.302 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - running as user
2020-07-31 11:29:30.302 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - task.launchPath - Optional("/Users/chkemp/Documents/Software Releases/Notifier/Notifier 2020-07-31 11-13-09/Products/Applications/Notifier.app/Contents/Resources/alert/MacIT - Alerts.app/Contents/MacOS/MacIT - Alerts")
2020-07-31 11:29:30.302 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - task.arguments - Optional(["--verbose", "--message", "MacIT Notification banner"])
2020-07-31 11:29:30.302 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - launch
2020-07-31 11:29:30.425 Notifier[27364:1252648] Notifier Log: notifier - complete

I see the last updates are labelled "Final Updates" has this project been abandoned?

I'd like to be able to pass terminal commands to --messageaction in much the same way that you can with Yo's -B / --bash-action.

I can't seem to work out how to get the correct syntax to make this happen with the available flags in Notifier. Is this something that's not available, or am I doing it wrong!

An dataJar recepie download/munki for Notifier would be great :)

I want to do something like that:
./Notifier --type alert --message "My Message" --messagebutton "Open" --messagebuttonaction "/System/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app ~/test.sh"

Unfortunately everything this doesn't work. It would also be nice to be able to pass option to open, like:

Options: 
      -a                    Opens with the specified application.
      -b                    Opens with the specified application bundle identifier.
      -e                    Opens with TextEdit.
      -t                    Opens with default text editor.
      -f                    Reads input from standard input and opens with TextEdit.
      -F  --fresh           Launches the app fresh, that is, without restoring windows. Saved persistent state is lost, excluding Untitled documents.
      -R, --reveal          Selects in the Finder instead of opening.
      -W, --wait-apps       Blocks until the used applications are closed (even if they were already running).
          --args            All remaining arguments are passed in argv to the application's main() function instead of opened.
      -n, --new             Open a new instance of the application even if one is already running.
      -j, --hide            Launches the app hidden.
      -g, --background      Does not bring the application to the foreground.
      -h, --header          Searches header file locations for headers matching the given filenames, and opens them.
      -s                    For -h, the SDK to use; if supplied, only SDKs whose names contain the argument value are searched.
                            Otherwise the highest versioned SDK in each platform is used.
      -u, --url URL         Open this URL, even if it matches exactly a filepath
      -i, --stdin  PATH     Launches the application with stdin connected to PATH; defaults to /dev/null
      -o, --stdout PATH     Launches the application with /dev/stdout connected to PATH; 
          --stderr PATH     Launches the application with /dev/stderr connected to PATH to
          --env    VAR      Add an enviroment variable to the launched process, where VAR is formatted AAA=foo or just AAA for a null string value.

All is working, but now there is a standard parser to move to:

https://swift.org/blog/argument-parser/

Running on Mac os 10.14.6 gives me an error:
"/applications/utilities/notifier.app/contents/resources/alert/Notifier - Alerts.app/contents/macos/Notifier - Alerts" --message "test"
2020-12-21 12:26:09.225 Notifier - Alerts[3531:27450] No Info.plist file in application bundle or no NSPrincipalClass in the Info.plist file, exiting

If i cd in to the folder and issue "./Notifier - Alerts" --message "test" I get a notification.

to attempt after - #21