Configure stat change notifications in Windows Dev Center

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This topic describes the procedures for subscribing to stat change notifications in the Dev Center service configuration for a title that’s using data platform 2013.

Stat change notifications are issued by using the Real-Time Activity (RTA) feature. Because constantly polling the service for the value of a player stat is inefficient, RTA is used to notify a title when a subscribed stat value has changed.

For an intro to the Xbox Live service configuration, see Xbox Live service configuration. For info on RTA, see Real-Time Activity Service.

Sections in this topic:

• Configure stat change notifications in Windows Dev Center
  • What is a stat change notification?
  • Configure stat change notifications
  • Enable stat change notifications
  • Modify stat change notifications
  • Delete a stat change notification

What is a stat change notification?

When a player stat is updated, it can be sent as a real-time update to any client subscribed to it. In this context, the user stat is considered an RTA. This reporting capability eliminates tracking and updating of your code and easily synchronizes this user statistic data across multiple screens.

Stat change notifications are especially useful in multiplayer games where a scoreboard tracks stats for each player and needs to be updated as quickly as possible.

Configure stat change notifications

1. Sign in with your account on Dev Center.

2. Select your title, and go to Services > Xbox Live.

3. Click the link to Stat change notifications.

4. On the Stat change notifications page, enable stats for stat change notifications.

You must create player stats before you can enable them for stat change notifications. For details, see Configure Xbox Live stats in Windows Dev Center.

Enable stat change notifications

1. Open the Stat change notifications page, which contains a list of any stats enabled for stat change notifications.

2. Click the drop-down box Select a stat, and select an existing stat to be registered for stat change notifications. You can also select Create a new player stat, which will open the Events and stat rules page in a new tab and will let you create a new player stat.

3. If you select a stat whose name contains fields, you must specify values for the fields.

4. When done adding the stat change notifications, click Save to save your changes, or click Cancel to discard them.

For your title to handle stat change notifications, you must add code to subscribe to the stat change notification by using the RTA service. For more info, see Programming the Real-Time Activity Service.

Modify stat change notifications

Important: After a title passes Final Certification, existing real-time activities in that title can no longer be changed or deleted.

1. On the Stat change notifications page, click the stat instance that you want to change.

2. In the drop-down box, select the stat instance for which you want to change the notification.

3. Click Save to save your changes, or click Cancel to discard them.

Delete a stat change notification

Important: After a title passes Final Certification, existing RTAs in that title can no longer be changed or deleted.

1. On the Stat change notifications page, click Delete next to the stat change notification that you want to remove.

2. Click Save to save your changes, or click Cancel to discard them.