Enable dashboard features and set behavioral defaults

Control which features are available in the dashboard and set project-level behavioral defaults.

Setting behavioral defaults

Control behaviors for your project:

Go to Settings.
Under Project Configuration, select Manage for Dashboard Settings.

Toggle to enable or disable the settings, then configure as required:

Feature	Description	Steps
Background Push	Pre-loads In-App Automations and Scenes on users' devices, which increases the speed and reliability of message delivery. It is disabled by default. When disabled, the SDK downloads and refreshes the entire message list upon next app open. For information about the potential impacts of background push, see In-App Automation: Background Push. The linked information also applies to Scenes.	n/a
Missed Behavior	Specifies how messages are handled when audience conditions are not fully met. You can override this setting on a per message basis in the Settings step in the In-App Automation and Scene composers.	Select from the options described in the next table.
Ban List	A Ban List is an externally maintained record of users that should not be included in Airship message audiences. Before sending a message, Airship validates the audience members with the Ban List. Any matching recipients are dropped from the audience before sending the message.	See Configuring your Ban List.

Missed Behavior options:

Option	Description
Cancel	The message cannot be displayed again on the device, even if the message is edited.
Ignore	The message will not count toward the display limit set for Repeat this message, and the waiting period will not apply. The trigger event must occur again before the message is eligible for redisplay.
Increment	The message will count toward the display limit set for Repeat this message, and the waiting period will apply. The trigger event must occur again before the message is eligible for redisplay.

Enabling features

Go to Settings.
Under Project Configuration, select Manage for Dashboard Settings.
Toggle to enable or disable features. Message Purpose has an additional configuration step and requirements.
- App SDK minimums are listed for each feature.
- Enabling or disabling features in the dashboard does not affect API functionality.

Features you can hide/show in the dashboard:

Feature	Description
Message Center	Deliver rich content to your app's Message CenterA place in your app where you can display persistent rich messages, including HTML, video, etc. Similar to email, Message Center represents both the medium (the in-app inbox) and the message type (the messages you send to the inbox).. Important Message Center also requires enabling Message Center, Landing Page, Deep Link, URL, and Add Tags
Delivery by Time Zone	Schedule a message to go out at the same time in different time zones. Available in the Message and A/B Test composers.
Message Center, Landing Page, Deep Link, URL, and Add Tags	The Airship Actions Framework
Remove Tags	Remove a tag when a user interacts with a push notification or button.
Notification Buttons	Interactive notifications for your app, including Airship's 30+ out-of-the-box buttons.
In-App Messages	Send a message that appears inside your app.
Segment Operators	Enable all operators for device properties in a SegmentA grouping of audience members selected by unique or shared identifiers. Multiple identifiers can be combined within a Segment.. When disabled, the only available operators are Equals and Does not equal.
Link In-App Experiences in Journeys	Link from one In-App AutomationMessages cached on users’ devices and displayed when users meet certain conditions within your app, such as viewing a particular screen or opening the app a certain number of times. or SceneA single or multi-screen in-app experience cached on users’ devices and displayed when users meet certain conditions in your app or website, such as viewing a particular screen or when a Custom Event occurs. They can be presented in fullscreen, modal, or embedded format using the default swipe/click mode or as a Story. Scenes can also contain survey questions. to another. See Linking Journey components.
Custom Keys	Pass key/value pairs of custom data through the push to your app.
Broadcast Push	Send to all devices. In the composers, this is the audience option All Users.
SMS Link Shortening	Use SMS Link ShorteningConverts HTTP/HTTPS URLs in your SMS messages to unique, shortened URLs for your recipients. The shortened URLs reduce the total number of characters that links consume and produce click tracking metrics, helping you determine how effective your SMS messages are in driving traffic to your links. for all SMS messages sent through the Airship dashboard. You can override the setting for individual messages.
Message Purpose	See following page section.
Bypass Ban List	See Bypassing Your Ban List in our Ban ListAn externally maintained record of users that should not be included in Airship message audiences. Before sending a message, Airship validates the audience members with the Ban List. Any matching recipients are dropped from the audience before sending the message. documentation.

Message Purpose

When enabled, Message Purpose requires designating each message (sent to any channel) as commercial or transactional. You must select a default value of Commercial, Transactional, or Unset.

The purpose selection appears in the Delivery step in the Message, A/B Test, Automation, and Sequence composers and in the Settings step in the Scene and In-App Automation composers. When creating messages using one of these composers, the purpose will be preset or unset according to the selected value. You can override the default per message.

If you have any scheduled or ongoing (Automation, Sequence, In-App Automation, Scene, or recurring) messages at the time of enabling Message Purpose, edit each message and select a purpose. Until you do so, Airship will send the messages as if they were set to Transactional.

Email — The commercial vs transactional designation is required for all email messages. Even when this setting is disabled, you will still set the purpose in Sender Information when creating email messages in the dashboard.
When Message Purpose is enabled and email and at least one other channel are selected for a message, the commercial/transactional designation set in the email Sender Information will apply to all channels.
For non-email messages, the message purpose informs Airship about your usage, which helps us develop better reporting.
Holdout Experiments — Message Purpose is required when using Holdout ExperimentsMeasures the effects of excluding a group of audience members from all messages or messages with specific Campaign Categories. You can compare the performance of the two audience groups in reports for selected goal events.. Message Purpose is automatically enabled when you create your first Holdout Experiment, and you cannot disable it later.

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