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Notifier – 4.0

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Notifier has just been updated to 4.0!

The primary change is that Notifier is now notarised and signed by Jamf, and as such its bundle identifiers have changed too. This has the knock-on effect of needing new profiles to be deployed. And I hope the major version change helps folks realise that there are changes needed.

Additionally, there are some new features:

  • A second action button (--messagebutton2 / --messagebutton2action)
  • A new action that fires when the user dismisses a notification (--messagedismissaction)
  • A placeholder for the user’s name, ({loggedInUser}), to be used when running an action as an easy way to get the logged in user’s username.

Click here for full details, and to download Notifier 4.0.

Application icon changes via NSWorkspace.setIcon no longer being reflected in Notification Center in macOS 26.4+

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https://xkcd.com/1172/

Bit of a wordy title, but since macOS 26.4 the rebranding options in both Jamf Auto Update and Notifier have stopped working, at least as far as the icons being shown in Notification Center for notifications.

This post’s header comic nods to the fact that I’m not 100% sure that the way I have been using NSWorkspace’s setIcon to update an application’s icon (and then its notifications), is an Apple approved workflow or just a happy accident.

Below, the method and madness are detailed, along with what’s broken and the ID of the feedback I logged with Apple.

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Notifications showing a prohibitory symbol after upgrading to macOS Monterey

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After upgrading to macOS Monterey, you might see notifications like the above.

If so, the simple solution is to logout and then back in (or restart) or alternatively to restart the Notification Center via:

/usr/bin/killall NotificationCenter

This seems to correct things, without any deeper delving into the issue.

Many thanks for @nstrauss and @Tyler Sparr for mentioning this on the macadmins slack, and raising an issue for Notifier too.

Project Updates – October 2020

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Other the past month, all of the dataJAR open source projects have received updates.

See below for details on these updates.

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Notifier

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During lockdown we’ve been busy at dataJAR.

Not only was our website given a complete overhaul, but we also released Notifier.

Notifier is a Swift app which can post macOS alert or banner notifications on 10.10+ clients, & is what’s posted the notifications in the gif at the top of this post.

This project was originally intended for use with jamJAR, & jamJAR will soon have it’s wiki updated detailing the usage with Notifier.