Web and WebWorks Development

[sergiosandoval]

Im looking to make my BB10 app intergrate with BBM and I just want to know what it is I need to just make the user to  change their BBM status to " Im using so and so" when they run the app.

Thank you in advance.

[chadtatro]

Hello,

I'd start by checking out our documentation here, https://developer.blackberry.com/html5/apis/blackberry.bbm.platform.html

More specifically you'll be looking at using setPersonalMessage which is shown here - https://developer.blackberry.com/html5/apis/blackberry.bbm.platform.self.html#.setPersonalMessage

[sergiosandoval]

If I use the "setPersonalMessage" update do I need the platform stuff too?

[chadtatro]

Yes, you'll need the whole thing.  The user must register with the BBM platform first before you can proceed with any BBM specific calls.

[sergiosandoval]

I see, thank you!

[ignites]

I want to do the same thing within BB OS 7 I tried using the documentation but was not successful

this is basically what i did

in config.xml i put in the line 

<feature id="blackberry.bbm.platform" />

within the app I put in a function called justAtest which I know works because it runs other features which work

function justAtest(){

//some codes that work

// Set the user's status and status message
blackberry.bbm.platform.self.setStatus("busy", "Playing Tic-Tac-Toe!", function (accepted) {
    if(accepted) {
        // User allowed the change
    } else {
        // User denied the change
    }
});

//some other code to confirm no crash/funciton is done

}

However the BBM status is not updated on my device am I missing something else as well? I did not get a prompt asking for BBM permissions, however, I thought the featureid line already enough to request permissions.

Thanks!

[chadtatro]

You still need to register with the service before you do anything relating to BBM like so..

// Create callback invoked when access changes
blackberry.bbm.platform.onaccesschanged = function(accessible, status) {
    if (status == "allowed") {
        // Access allowed
    } else if (status == "user") {
        // Access blocked by user
    } else if (status == "rim") {
        // Access blocked by RIM
    }
    // Listen for other status...
};

// Register with the platform
blackberry.bbm.platform.register({
    uuid: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" // Randomly generated UUID
});

[ignites]

Thanks Chad, I did that now in my onload function, however,  that function copy and pasted from the webworks Site above in my original post does not work. I do, however get the BBM app permission connectivity prompts. 

[sergiosandoval]

Do i add this in my index file? Or my main html file?

[chadtatro]

Usually it goes in any JavaScript file your index.html includes, but could go into index.html.  I recommend reading the documentation first.

https://developer.blackberry.com/html5/apis/blackberry.bbm.platform.html