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Reading Plans

Did you know you can set up one or more Reading Plans? These are great tools for keeping your community engaged. Each Reading Plan can be assigned multiple Reading Plan Days – a Reading Plan Day has a Date, Title and Scripture passage.

You can then create a Dashboard recipe or a Navigation link to open a specific Reading Plan. The App will display all Reading Plan Days that are today or older (the app displays them in a list with the Title, Date and list of scriptures). When the user clicks the Reading Plan Day, it will load those scriptures. Currently we only have license support for the American Standard Version, but are working on more versions.

For more information on sending these up on your dashboard, please check out our instructions here.

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Apple TV Beta Testing

Ready to beta test your Apple TV App?

When your Apple TV App is ready for beta testing, PocketPlatform support will provide you a TestFlight link that can be used to install the channel on one or more Apple TV devices:

Installation TestFlight

To get started, install TestFlight on the device you’ll use for testing.  Open the App Store on your Apple TV, search for TestFlight and install the App.  You should install TestFlight on an Apple TV where you can sign in with the same Apple App Store Account as on your iOS device.

    1. Open the email sent to you with the TestFlight link on your iOS device and tap the link.
    2. Tap Accept for the app you want to test.
    3. Open TestFlight on Apple TV. You must be signed in to the same App Store account you used on your iOS device.
    4. Install the app you want to test.

The App will be added to your home screen.

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Roku Channel Beta Testing

Ready to beta test your Roku Channel?

When your Roku Channel is ready for beta testing, PocketPlatform support will provide you a “vanity URL” that can be used to install the channel on one or more Roku devices. To install a channel with a vanity URL:

The channel will be added to your channel lineup on all Roku devices associated with your Roku Account.

Note: When installing a channel from the web, you will need to check for system updates before the channel will appear on your home screen. To check for system updates on your Roku device, navigate to Settings > System > System Update > Check Now.

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User Specific Navigation

User Specific Navigation

Last Updated: Apr 13, 2020 @ 9:41 pm

PocketPlatform apps include two navigation menus, one static navigation that directs users to the main features of the app and a second user specific navigation.  The User Specific Navigation is accessible from the upper right corner of the app and is available for both logged out and logged in users.

Guest Users

A user that is not logged into the app will see links to:

  • Login (the app’s primary login screen with options to login with phone number, email or password)
  • Settings (the screen where a user can toggle notifications and analytics on/off)
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service

Logged In Users

Logged in users will see, at minimum, links to the following:

  • Manage My Profile (the screen where a user can update their profile photo, username, password, et al.)
  • Settings (the screen where a user can toggle notifications and analytics on/off)
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service

In addition, users can be presented with other links as determined by a customizable stored procedure running on your MinistryPlatform server.  By default, the stored procedure is configured to conditionally show users links to the following:

  • My Favorite Sermons (list of sermons where the user has clicked the favorite icon ♥)
  • My Groups (list of Groups for which the user is a member and the Group has been enabled for Group Management)
  • My Badges (list of Gamified Journeys and Milestone Badges earned by the user)
  • My Group Chat (list of Groups for which the user is a member and the Group has been enabled for the Group Chat Tool)

TIP: You can customize the User Specific Navigation by editing the api_PocketPlatform_getRightNav Stored Procedure.  Use your own custom logic to determine what links are shown to your users based on the data available about the user in MinistryPlatform.  Reference the App Links KB Article for ideas on what screens can be loaded.

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Leaving the PocketPlatform Beta Program

Leaving a PocketPlatform Beta

Last Updated: Sep 10, 2019 @ 8:24 am

When you sign up for a PocketPlatform Beta program through either TestFlight or the Google Play Store, you may continue to receive beta updates to the app while PocketPlatform continues to update and test new versions.  If you or your users would like to leave the beta program at any time, please follow the instructions provided by Google or Apple as described below. Please note: if you leave the beta program, you will stop receiving beta updates. If you would like to receive and test beta versions of your app again, you will need to rejoin the beta program using the appropriate link.

Android Devices: Leaving a beta through Google Play

To leave the beta program on Google Play please follow the instructions found here: Try new Android Apps before they are officially released under the heading “Leave a beta program”

Apple iOS: Leaving a beta through TestFlight

With TestFlight you have a bit more control over your beta experience.

Option 1: Maintain your beta affiliation

To temporarily leave the beta track with TestFlight, simply install the latest final version of the app in the iOS App Store. When you are ready to rejoin the beta program, simply reinstall the latest version of the beta app in TestFlight.

You may still receive notifications that new beta builds are available.  It is your choice to install these updates if you desire.

Option 2: Leave the beta program entirely

If you would like to leave the beta program entirely, you may do so in TestFlight by:

  • Open TestFlight
  • Tap the PocketPlatform App
  • Scroll to the bottom of the page
  • Tap “Stop Testing”

If you need to later rejoin the beta program, you will need to follow the public link for your app once more.

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