win_toast - Sends Toast windows notification to logged in users on Windows 10 or later hosts¶

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Sends alerts which appear in the Action Center area of the windows desktop.

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
expire	Default: 45	How long in seconds before the notification expires.
group	Default: "Powershell"	Which notification group to add the notification to.
msg	Default: "Hello, World!"	The message to appear inside the notification. May include \n to format the message to appear within the Action Center.
popup bool	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, the notification will not pop up and will only appear in the Action Center.
tag	Default: "Ansible"	The tag to add to the notification.
title	Default: "Notification HH:mm"	The notification title, which appears in the pop up..

Notes ¶

Note

This module must run on a windows 10 or Server 2016 host, so ensure your play targets windows hosts, or delegates to a windows host.
The module does not fail if there are no logged in users to notify.
Messages are only sent to the local host where the module is run.
You must run this module with async, otherwise it will hang until the expire period has passed.

Examples ¶

- name: Warn logged in users of impending upgrade (note use of async to stop the module from waiting until notification expires).
  win_toast:
    expire: 60
    title: System Upgrade Notification
    msg: Automated upgrade about to start.  Please save your work and log off before {{ deployment_start_time }}
  async: 60
  poll: 0

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
expire_at_utc string	allways	Calculated utc date time when the notification expires. Sample: 07 July 2017 04:50:54
no_toast_sent_reason string	when no logged in users are detected	Text containing the reason why a notification was not sent. Sample: No logged in users to notify
sent_localtime string	allways	local date time when the notification was sent. Sample: 07 July 2017 05:45:54
time_taken float	allways	How long the module took to run on the remote windows host in seconds. Sample: 0.3706632
toast_sent boolean	allways	Whether the module was able to send a toast notification or not.

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author ¶

Jon Hawkesworth (@jhawkesworth)

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