Slack notifications not working on Windows 8 - notifications

I am using Windows 8. For some reason I haven't been receiving the slack notifications on my desktop. When I searched online for help, I got suggestions to turn off the focus assist, but it was of no help to me, as I didn't find anything like focus assist on my Windows 8 desktop. Slack notifications settings window
I tried to enable notification sounds from the notifications and action center, but there was no option to enable the notifications for slack, all it was showing was windows apps only.
Windows notifications settings

Yes, you need to turn off the focus assist, then you will get a slack notification. The below steps are for windows 10 but it may work for you too:
Go to the Start menu.
Click Settings > System.
From the right sidebar, select Focus Assist.
Select Off.

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Thanks
I finally found a way to do that.
I changed from Toast notification to Raw notification (a push notification that does not involve UI). (MSDN - Documentation)
After that, I had to customise my AWS SNS notification wiht MessageAttributes to change the type of my WNS notification (AWS - Documentation).
I've also noticed that we can directly suppress the Toast UI on Windows phone with "X-WNS-SuppressPopup" param, which can be also very helpful. (MSDN - SuppressPopup).
Finally, inspired from AWS Baidu Push notification sample code, I did the same for WNS platform, adding all new arguments I needed, and it works great at the end.
Hope this can help someone else.

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