7 Answers

• Accepted Answer

  You can see how dashboard item badges are set both at initialization and later in an event listener at http://github.com/appcelerator/KitchenSink/blob/master/KitchenSink/Resources/examples/dashboard.js

• Any help??

• The badge you can set with push notifications is the app badge, not an item in a dashboard. If you want to set a badge on an item in a dashboard you can see how it's done in KitchenSink.

• Jonathan Harlap, thank you for taking the time to answer my question!
  However, if you have tried the facebook app, you can see the item badge if you receive a private message or something similar!

  There should be an identifier for the item badge in the dashboard view!

  Thank you again!

• Please help me out :)

• Jonathan Harlap, thank you again! you're awesome! :)

  Okay, here is the case in a pseudo code:

  If a push notification is successfully received then
     assign a badge of +1 to the item at index 3 
     //where item.index(3) is the item of the app news for example
  end if
  

  where the dashboard will be looking something like

  [ ] [ ] [ ]
  [x] [ ] [ ]
  [ ] [ ] [ ]
  

  where [x] is the app news item which I want to assign it a badge if a push notification is successfully received.

  Thanks again! :)

• The answer is (by the help of Jonathan Harlap, many thanks go to him).

  var Data = ["item1", "item2", "item3", ... , "itemN"];
  
  /*
  rest of code goes here
  ...
  ...
  ...
  and then if a successful push notification is received, 
  just do the following for assigning a badge for the 
  "item3", for example!
  */
  
  Data[2].badge = +1;
  

  Thank you Jonathan Harlap :)