2.6. Universal Link

MetaAccess now supports universal link on the OPSWAT MetaAccess mobile app. With the universal link, MetaAccess provides a seamless way for you to link a custom id in your solution with a MetaAccess device id and use this custom id to query device details. Your app/website just needs to provide a MetaAccess app's universal link with a custom id as a parameter to end-users. By tapping the link, the universal link lets the user open the installed MetaAccess app and pass the custom id to the MetaAccess app. The MetaAccess app reports compliance data and links the custom id with the device id. Your solution can then use the Device Details API to query the device details with the custom id.

Universal Link Format

https://mobile.metaaccess.opswat.com/<custom_id>?app_name=<APP_NAME>&app_id=<APP_ID>

Parameters

Parameter

Data Type

Description

Required

custom_id

string

a unique custom id you want to link to the device. If it's invalid, MetaAccess fails to send a report to the MetaAccess cloud and shows the error code as 4000

Only accept a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and hyphen (-) characters. Maximum length is 50 characters

Yes

app_name

string

name of an app which you want to tell the user go back after opening MetaAccess app. After reporting compliance data to MetaAccess cloud successfully, MetaAccess app will show a message to tell the user to go back to that app. If this is invalid or missing, MetaAccess just tells users go back to previous app

Optional

app_id

string

Android package name/iOS app scheme of the app which you want the user goes back. If this is invalid or missing, users need to go back to the desired app manually. Note that app_id is case-sensitive

See How could I find an app ID of an application?

Optional

Common Error Codes

The MetaAccess app will throw error message to end-users along with a specific error code.

Error code

Error Description

Resolution

4000

The custom id in the universal link is invalid

 

(No specific error code)

The MetaAccess app could not connect to the MetaAccess server

  1. If a device is on a cellular network, please check if the MetaAccess app is allowed to use cellular data

  2. Check if a mobile device can connect to the MetaAccess servers which the app is connecting to.

  3. If the server is up.

Example with an appID:

iOS: https://mobile.metaaccess.opswat.com/TEST67AD71?app_name=Salesforce&app_id=salesforce1://
Android: https://mobile.metaaccess.opswat.com/TEST67AD71?app_name=Salesforce&app_id=com.salesforce.chatter

On the MetaAccess app, users will get a message like the one below after the app reports data to the MetaAccess cloud successfully.

images/download/attachments/34554456/Report_successfully.png

Example with an invalid custom id:

iOS: https://mobile.metaaccess.opswat.com/TEST!?app_name=Salesforce&app_id=salesforce1://

On MetaAccess app, users will get the below error message.

images/download/attachments/34554456/report_failed.png

As June 15, 2018, MetaAccess releases a new agent version on mobile devices which supports Universal Link

  • iOS app version: 2.45.11+

  • Anroid app version: 2.54.4+