Question Auto SMS Alert using Progress & third party application

[Mark Ezekiel P. Torio]

Hi to All,


Just want to ask, you ideas and option about Auto SMS Alert, is there anyone here had made it before, can someone suggest how will it works.

 

[RealHeavyDude]

There are several options. The most straightforward one is using a WebService which you can call directly from the ABL. If you google a little bit you should be able to find a buch of them out there.

The corporation I work for has its own SMS gateway for which server-side APIs are provided. But that is a proprietary solution that was built a long time ago and runs on the mainframe.

Heavy Regards, RealHeavyDude.

 

[Cecil]

Historically (2007/8) I've used Clickatell and a cURL command line command to POST parameters to the Web Service.

https://www.clickatell.com/get-creative-with-sms/alerts/

Going back even further (1999) I did investigate the possibility for to use a GSM modem which could send SMS message. The GSM modem was to be connected to the serial port on a UNIX server.

This would enable us to send an SMS message when the internet connection was unavailable.

 

[Mark Ezekiel P. Torio]

Hi

Thanks to all, just want to know if there's a freeware for that?

 

[Cecil]

Clickatell are cheap at less than $0.05 cent's per message and possibly the most recognised band in the SMS market the world over. Everything comes at a cost.

1. How many massages do you expect to send?
2. Were in the world do you want to send the messages to?

You can find a free SMS provider but they seam to be locked to a particular region or/and there is advertising.

 

[Mark Ezekiel P. Torio]

Hi Cecil,

1. How many massages do you expect to send?

actually its only a alert message, i something happen on the file creation.

2. Were in the world do you want to send the messages to?

in my local country only (Singapore)

 

[Cecil]

From doing a quick Google it looks like that there isn't a FREE SMS gateway providers with Web API in Singapore. You can pre-buy a 1000 SMS messages for $75 SGD per year http://www.bulksms.com.sg/.

It all depends if what you want is a 'nice to have feature' or is it a beneficial tool for administrator and users?

 

[Cecil]

The possible alternative is to use Social Networking Mobile Apps i.e. LINE, Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger to inject/post a message there web-services API to be able to publish your message. I have never done this myself but it should be possible in theory.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat

 

[Cecil]

The possible alternative is to use Social Networking Mobile Apps i.e. LINE, Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger to inject/post a message there web-services API to be able to publish your message. I have never done this myself but it should be possible in theory.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat

Woops. It was a nice idea in theory but it looks like Facebook has dropped the chat API .

 

[TomBascom]

Here in the USA you can send an SMS to someone by emailing phoneNum@carrier.com i.e. 123456789@verizon.com

That's free and more than good enough for many purposes.

 

[Cecil]

Here in the USA you can send an SMS to someone by emailing phoneNum@carrier.com i.e. 123456789@verizon.com

That's free and more than good enough for many purposes.

Is the senders email address then associated with a white list? What processes are in-place set by the telecommunications company so this method of EMAIL2TXT is not abused?

 

[TomBascom]

Nothing specific that I know of. It just works. I don't get any SMS spam so either the carriers block it or the spammers have determined it is pointless.

 

[Mark Ezekiel P. Torio]

thanks for the information, I'll try to look some apps that can inject a message

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

In some regions there are SMS web services, but they may be limited to personal use or to a maximum number of messages per day. We have taken the GSM modem approach and it seems to work fine.