Add your channel ID to a test group

You have two options for finding your channel ID and adding it to a Test GroupA preview group is an audience group you create for previewing personalized content in the dashboard. Wherever a personalization preview is available, you can select a preview group, and those users’ attributes will appear for any Handlebars references to attributes. You can enable any preview group as a test group so the users can receive test messages sent to the group. These messages appear as tests in Messages Overview. :

Option 1: Speak with one of your developers about getting your mobile app or web channel added to a test group.

Option 2: Find your channel ID and add it to a test group. Follow the steps on this page.

Find Your Mobile App Channel ID

You must first build into your app a mechanism to expose the device’s Channel IDAn Airship-specific unique identifier used to address a channel instance, e.g., a smartphone, web browser, email address. to the console. See: Mobile: Channels.

You can view the console with these tools:

• iOS: iPhone Configuration Utility  or Xcode 
• Android: Android Debug Bridge 

If you didn’t write the device identifier to the console, you can use the steps here to help retrieve it: Using Charles Proxy to profile an Airship Implementation .

Find Your Web Browser Channel ID

A channel ID is an Airship-specific unique identifier for a channel instance, e.g., a smartphone, web browser, email address. Your channel ID is only available if you have already integrated the Airship SDK with your website. To access your web channel ID, you will need to open the Developer console in your browser and paste in a small amount of code. Instructions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are provided.

1. Open the console via keyboard shortcut or the menu.

   Google Chrome

   • Keyboard Shortcuts: In macOS you can go directly to the console with Cmd+Opt+J. In Windows, the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+J.
   • Menu: Click   and go to More Tools » Developer Tools, then select the Console tab.

   Mozilla Firefox

   • Keyboard Shortcuts: In macOS you can go directly to the console with Cmd+Opt+K. In Windows, the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+K.
   • Menu: Click the “hamburger” icon and go to More Tools » Web Developer Tools, then select the Console tab.

2. 

   Paste UA.then(sdk => {console.log(sdk.channel.id)}) in the console, then hit Enter. If a browser has registered, the resulting line is the channel ID.

Common errors:

• 

  The SDK will return null if the browser is unregistered. Only registered browsers will have a channel ID. See our documentation on how to register the current browser with Airship.

• 

  A UA is not defined response can indicate that the SDK snippet is not present within the page. Navigate to a page on your site that does have the SDK snippet and repeat step 2 above.

   Note

  Ideally, the SDK snippet will be present in every page on your site, as per the Add JavaScript Snippet section of our Web Getting Started guide. If, for testing or other reasons, you have added the snippet to just one page of your site, you will need to be on that specific page for retrieving your Web channel ID to be successful.

Create a Test Group

1. Go to Audience » Preview and Test Groups.
2. Click Create group.
3. Enter a name for the group. The name cannot be changed after creating the group.
4. (Optional) Enable Test group. This setting cannot be changed after creating the group.
5. Click Save and continue.
6. Repeat for each user you want to add:
   1. Click Add user.
   2. Enter the user’s:
      • Name — A personal name or description to identify this user.
      • ID — A Channel IDAn Airship-specific unique identifier used to address a channel instance, e.g., a smartphone, web browser, email address. , email address, or MSISDNThe mobile phone number of an individual in your Airship audience. Each MSISDN represents an individual mobile device. . This cannot be changed later.
      • Sender ID — If you entered a MSISDN as the user ID, your project’s Sender IDThe alphanumeric code that your audience will see when they receive messages from you; it is essentially the phone number or name that your SMS messages come from. Members of your audience subscribe (opt in) to each individual sender ID they want to receive messages from. appears here. If more than one sender ID is configured for your project, select from the available options.
   3. Click Done.

Now you are ready to send your first message.