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Paul Winterhalder

brainCloud 6.0.1 has been deployed. The Campaign Analytics feature - as well as the APIs for updating the campaign and scenario JSON, are now live!

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Paul Winterhalder

Hi @gyutaelee ,

Use the direct global property call from the bridge. It will return secret properties.

https://docs.braincloudservers.com/api/cc/bridge/getglobalproperty

i.e. bridge.getGlobalProperty(propname);

I hope that helps!

Paul.

Paul Winterhalder

Hi Jongdae,

Great questions!

Before I answer them, though - heads up that we have an update to LiveOps campaigns coming next week. It provides a great analytics screen for campaigns, so you can see how they are impacting player engagement, monetization, retention, etc.

That said, you are pointing out some additional caps that we'll want to address quickly:

The management APIs for campaigns are following in a future release - but we can see about getting some APIs that specifically target updating the custom JSON for campaigns and scenarios. I'm going to see if I can slip that into next week's release.
Right now campaign enrollment is only triggered upon login. We're planning to add an optional "trigger": true flag ot the getMyCampaigns() call, though - which would allow games to make that call periodically (i.e., after the player finishes a "match," perhaps), as makes sense on a per-game basis. Longer-term, we are considering adding an RTT channel that clients could listen to to be notified of when a new campaign launches...
Feature maturity - with the 6.0.1 update that we're releasing, the feature is mature enough to build upon. We'll continue to extend it, but we can do so without invalidating the foundation we have built.
Cross-environment campaign management - we'll be adding some features to allow easy importing / exporting of campaigns between environments. Plus the S2S management api will help too... All coming this fall!

I hope that helps,

Paul.

Paul Winterhalder

Hi @noah ,

brainCloud 6.0.1, which will be released next week, adds new data stream events for virtual item purchases.

We'll keep #2 and #3 in mind as we continue to evolve things going forward.

Thanks for pointing out MongoDB CDC - I wasn't familiar with that capability before. We'll take a harder look at it.

Cheers!

Paul.

Paul Winterhalder

Hi @moondory77 ,

The work on this is running in our development environment. The Builder API support is in place - and we're currently looking at the possibility of adding it as a new tab in the Deployment screen of the Portal.

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Paul Winterhalder

Hi,

Apologies for the slow response.

We don't have any calls that could directly handle a "file" of profileIds. We do have a few "toBatch" calls that are callable from S2S though - so you could probably have an offboard system make those calls - and call braincloud to send the notifications in batches.

Where are these profileIds coming from? An offboard analytics system of some sort?

To answer your questions:

We are planning a revamp of our notifications system and it's APIs. I'll add this conversation so that it will be considered as we're planning that.
As mentioned above, using one of the "Batch" calls would make the most sense - and keep your API counts reasonable
There's an API call to call the SendRichPushNotificationWithParams, plus a second api call for the sending the push notification itself. So that would be <numReceivers> x 2 for API costs. Less if called from within a script. But the *Batch() calls would be
Substitutions and custom metadata/custom data - the current APIs don't - so you'd probably need to handle those client side. Are the substitutions highly personal - like player's name?

I hope that helps to clarify things,

Paul.

Paul Winterhalder

Hi @moondory77 ,

We hear you - and are looking to see what options we can provide.

The thing to understand is that there are a lot of dependencies between metadata in the brainCloud system - and our deployment mechanisms work hard to ensure the integrity of the data that gets pushed. Even more importantly - it works to prevent user data from being corrupted by a mis-match of data during deployments - which is why apps are very temporarily disabled during a deployment.

These deployments normally take well under a minute and aren't much more troublesome than a common wifi interruption for clients [depends upon the client implementation though]... (note - the deployment may seem like it takes longer on the web - as there is a lot of data dependency checking to do - but all of that is done BEFORE we disable the app... which happens just for the actually data migration activity itself).

If you contact us via the support chat with your appId and the time you last did a deployment - we can take a look to see if your deployment times are above normal.

Also - we are working to provide a separate custom entity deployment mechanism - similar to what has been done for item management.

Paul.

Paul Winterhalder

Unfortunately, our notification templating system is very simple and currently only supports simple text notifications. It does not currently push a template id.

We do have plans to revamp the system on our "to-do" list - but it has not been scheduled yet.

We recommend folks use the "raw" template calls - they give devs the most control over what gets sent to the various notification systems.

Paul.

Paul Winterhalder

To answer your questions:

Yes - it's essentially the same - though I think the specific code paths vary.
We do not currently have an selective migration for custom entities via the builder api - but I'll raise that with the devs. I would think that would be very doable.
Not currently

I'll get the devs looking into #2.

Paul.

Paul Winterhalder

Hi,

API calls triggered by the backend DO count towards API usage -- so using the API Explorer to make calls do get counted as API calls. So - if you use API explorer to trigger a user batch job that then runs scripts on all of your users - yes, yes that does get counted as API calls.

Also - uploads of files to and from the portal do get counted in the file transfer costs.

Other normal portal operations - like viewing users, viewing logs, editing scripts, etc - do NOT get charged in API counts. So to clarify - using the API explorer to view a leaderboard is going to add an API count - but using the leaderboard viewer at App > Global > Leaderboards > Leaderboards does not!

To be honest - in general - usaging of the portal is negligible. You won't really notice the usage added by what you're doing in the API explorer or working through the portal. It's only if you use the API Explorer to kick off a large job that API counts would be noticable <-- as you'd expect!

I hope that helps!

Paul.

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