Renew - Second Son Consulting

There are four required arguments to make a valid Renew configuration.

There are a number of optional arguments to change Renew to look and act how you want.

This is the maximum number of deferrals a user receives before Renew enters "Aggressive" mode. Set to '-1' to disable deferrals.

The number of days which a device is online prior to the Renew experience starting.

The number of times the user will get a macOS Notification Center event prior to the full Swift Dialog experience. Set to '-1' to configure an infinite threshold.

The minimum number of hours between when a user is notified that they need to restart.

If enabled, interacting with the notification will initiate a restart. Defaults to true.

The title of your dialog windows and notifications. Maps to the swiftDialog option: --title

The message body you want in your Aggressive Mode dialog windows. Maps to SwiftDialog option: --message

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The message body you want in your Notification Center alerts. Maps to SwiftDialog option: --message

The subtitle field of your notifications. Maps to SwiftDialog option: --subtitle

What do you want your deferral button to say? Maps to SwiftDialog option: --button1text

What do you want your deferral button to say when it's greyed out in Aggressive Mode? Maps to SwiftDialog option: --button1text

What do you want your "Restart Now" button to say? Maps to SwiftDialog option: --infobuttontext

If true, an additional sentence is added to your Normal Mode dialog windows indicating how many deferrals the user has remaining. Omit this key if you don't want the extra information.

This is the icon included on the right side of the Dialog Notification. Can be an app or a file path. Maps to SwiftDialog option: --icon

This is the icon included on the right side of the Dialog Notification. Can be an app or a file path. Use this key if you have to differentiate between light and dark mode icons. Maps to SwiftDialog option: --icon

The icon used in your Normal and Aggressive Mode dialogs. Use "none" to disable. This can be a path to an image file, an app, or an SF symbol by using "SF=symbol.name". This maps to SwiftDialog option: --icon

The icon used in your Normal and Aggressive Mode dialogs. Use this key if you have to differentiate between light and dark mode icons.This can be a path to an image file, an app, or an SF symbol by using "SF=symbol.name". This maps to SwiftDialog option: --icon

Use this key to designate a file path to a Banner Image for your Normal and Aggressive Mode dialog windows. Maps to SwiftDialog option: --bannerimage

Use this key to designate a file path to a Banner Image for your Normal and Aggressive Mode dialog windows. Use this key if you have to differentiate between light and dark mode banners. Maps to SwiftDialog option: --bannerimage

Use this key to pass additional options you want for all dialog events. See SwiftDialog documentation for advanced options.

Use this key to pass additional options you want for only Aggressive Mode dialog events. See SwiftDialog documentation for advanced options.

Use this key to pass additional options you want for only Normal Mode dialog events. See SwiftDialog documentation for advanced options.

Use this key to pass additional options you want for only Notification Mode dialog events. See SwiftDialog documentation for advanced options.

The applications which Renew ignores when checking for display assertions. (You can specify one or more, EX: zoom.us firefox).

Use this option to enable "Deadline" mode. If a device's uptime exceeds the "Deadline" value in days, Renew will enter Aggressive Mode regardless of the remaining deferrals.

This key in combination with the "Command" key will allow you to quit a dialog window without restarting. Cannot be set to Q! Omit this to leave the default combination (Cmd+]. Maps to SwiftDialog option --quitkey

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