Suggestion to application settings

Question

Hi, I am a newbie.

I am developing a mobile app to android and IOS.

1. My application will be installed in user mobiles of  30 medical clinics.

2. Each clinic has a number of application users ranging from 1-50 users.

3. Each clinical works independent of the other.

4. I intend to send push notifications using app42 as provider for users of my application, but I have to choose which clinic will receive messages and also with the possibility of selecting a user on particicular.

 

My poblem is in App42 configuration:

- I saw that app42 does not allow two or more users with the same username or email it to register. How do I solve this problem if each clinical want to use a User name that already exists? Is there another alternative?

 

- How can group the users by clinic, so that I know who are the users of each clinic and can send messages to a particular user or all of that clinic? 

I thought about using collections, but someone could give me an example?

As the User using my app can register in the collections?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Luiz

 

Answer 1

- I saw that app42 does not allow two or more users with the same username or email it to register. How do I solve this problem if each clinical want to use a User name that already exists? Is there another alternative?

- you should have a unique identifier by user in your database, use it as to register as username for push notifications

- How can group the users by clinic, so that I know who are the users of each clinic and can send messages to a particular user or all of that clinic? 

I thought about using collections, but someone could give me an example?

As the User using my app can register in the collections?

 

- App42 allows you to group your users in "channels". You could subcript a user to a chanel and send a push notification to all users of a channel.

 

Hope it helps you

Comments

Thank you,

But,

>>you should have a unique identifier by user in your database, use it as to >>register as username for push notifications
There is many clinical medics, about 30. How could I control the username entered during the setup of my app in the device? It would be hard to me to say the cliinic A manager that can't user a username because the clinic B already has a user with the same name.   

Luiz

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Which is your primary key in User table of your database? that primary key should be the value you register your user (unique in all clinical medics)

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Each clinic has a independent database of users of the app. The primary key of the users table of clinic A can be the same of Cliinic B. I have no way of control which primary key will be used in each clinic. The primnary key is unique, but only into each clinic.

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The only way I see is to register your user something like (clinic_id/userid) to identify that user in the Clinic.

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OK, thank you very much. You aleady help me too much.  I have another question, but i am going to open  a  new topic because is other case.

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Ok! accept the answer as valid to help other people!