How to avoid ScheduledToastNotification from launching the App on UWP? - notifications

Question

I have a kind of alarm on my App.
It's working fine, but when it finishes all I want is to pop-up the notification. I have a button to dismiss and another one to snooze. Both of them open the app once tapped. I don't want this behavior. All I need is to snooze it or dismiss it and that's it.
Is it possible?
Here is how I'm doing it:
var xmlString = #"<toast launch='args' scenario='alarm'>
<visual>
<binding template='ToastGeneric'>
<text>" + alertAction + #"</text>
<text>" + alertBody + #"</text>
</binding>
</visual>
<actions>
<action arguments = 'snooze'
content = 'Snooze' />
<action arguments = 'dismiss'
content = 'Dismiss' />
</actions>
</toast>";
var doc = new Windows.Data.Xml.Dom.XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xmlString);
var toast = new ScheduledToastNotification(doc, DateTimeOffset.Now.AddMinutes(durationInMinutes), new TimeSpan(0, 0, 300), 5);
toast.Id = id;
ToastNotificationManager.CreateToastNotifier().AddToSchedule(toast);

Answer 1

Your current action will generate a ToastButton type, which is normal activationType & will active the app when tapped. If you don't want to active the app, declare activationType to system.
Try to use
<actions hint-systemCommands = 'SnoozeAndDismiss' />
or add activationType="system" in each of action
<actions>
<action activationType="system"
arguments = 'snooze'
content = 'Snooze' />
<action activationType="system"
arguments = 'dismiss'
content = 'Dismiss' />
</actions>