I need a way to have users on my website click an advertisement and have thier phone send a text message to a number with a keyword. All they should have to do next is hit send.
User lands on my site. Sees an ad that says "Click here to join our list" user clicks it and a number/keyword is loaded into their SMS Texting program on their phone so they hit send and they are on my list.
You could try the following:
Click here to join our list
where 12345678 is the phone number and TEXT_BODY_HERE is what you want them to send. I haven't tested this, so I don't know what percentage of phones actually support this.
Here's a good article with some details about forming SMS/Text message links:
http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/2166-how-to-send-a-text-message-from-your-mobile-website/
Samples:
Send an SMS
<a href="sms://?body=Visit%20the%20best%20site%20at%20http://mobilexweb.com">
Invite a friend by SMS<a>
Contact us by SMS
<a href="sms://+3490322111?body=Interested%20in%20Product%20AA2">
More info for producto AA2</a>
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I am developing a PowerAutomate flow,
I want to use the function "post message in chat or channel",
I can send messages to anyone in "one to one" private chats but not on the private chat i have with myself.
Has somebody found a way to message himself via power automate?
I can't create it as a "new chat" in PA because it says users cannot be duplicate.
Then i figured out i had to find the ID of the chat with myself.
I tried using the microsoft graph api to retrieve the id from "me/chats" but the chat with myself is not shown.
I tried many different filters and expansions with no success.
I also tried analyzing the id itself and discovered that, in the case of "one to one" chats, it's made of {the sender id} and {the receiver id}
I then tried constructing an id that contains 19:{myuserid}_{myuserid}#{domain} but it responds that there is no record.
I tried many combinations,
thanks for the help.
Currently it is not possible to send messages/cards to self chat as the self-chat id is not exposed.You can raise suggest this feature at Microsoft Teams Feedback portal.
Please not that if you post card using below settings it will send a card to you but as a separate chat with Power Automate.
We have a Teams bot that sends messages containing adaptive cards to end users (via the Bot Framework). When the chat window is not in focus, the Teams client will show the incoming message in a Toast/Popup that appears in the bottom right of the screen. However when the message contains just a card, the toast is nondescript and there is no hint to the user as to what the "Sent a card" maybe all about. So all card message toasts appear to be the same. See image
Is it possible to display a text message alongside the "Sent a card" in Toast so the user can decide whether to immediately interact with the message or ignore it. Any other visual cues we can provide that would appear in the Toast?
You have to set a summary when sending cards via Bot Framework.
Like this:
var response = MessageFactory.Text(string.Empty);
response.Attachments.Add(cardAttachment);
response.Summary = "showing custom greeeting from the Bot - rather than a card";
await turnContext.SendActivityAsync(response, cancellationToken);
The summary is shown in the notification instead of "sent a card"
This was implemented quite some time ago.
Could anyone tell which countries would be able to send and receive SMS AND calls to Latvia?
I can't seem to find an answer, it appears that LV numbers can't send SMS, yet I see prices on the pricing page. I'm quite confused as of which country I should get a number in (and the price).
If I get a LV number, does it mean i can send, but not receive SMS? It would be fine for my app (already built, waiting to go live).
Basically, it is a browser app acting as a soft phone (single user), so no landline involved. Is there a way to solve the country problem?
Twilio evangelist here.
Looks like we currently only have Voice enabled Latvian numbers (numbers with a +371 prefix). Buying one costs you $1 US and use can use it to have Twilio make a voice phone call from it or receive phone calls to it.
For SMS, Twilio does support sending international SMS from US numbers, so you certainly could buy a US number and use it to send text messages to a Latvian number. The pricing for that is here (scroll down to see per-carrier pricing details).
Hope that helps clarify.
I've read auto sms is not possible, if you send a SMS through an app you need user interaction like pressing a button.
But if my phone shows up at a particular position based on gps and a stored record that has that gps info, would that not be the user interaction I need and the sms just get sent?
From the code I've seen if button pressed run this code and send SMS.
What I'd be doing basically is
If I arrive at this location send SMS. From my view this is not exactly Auto SMS, its sms based on certain variables but without user interaction.
Is this possible, am I making any sense lol
As a workaround, you could use one of the SMS services available to send a SMS. If you would like a free solution, you can use the carrier email-sms to send a SMS. You just have to send an email at this point in your code.
My client has a website but doesn't check emails often. He has a lot of web enquiries through the online contact form. He carries a mobile phone though. How to send contact form details that's submitted through the website to his mobile phone as SMS?
The quickest and cheapest way is to determine the email address for that person's phone. Almost every cell phone has an email address you can send to which will show up as SMS on the device. This should help you find the email address for each carrier: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/
If you want to send an actual SMS instead of an email, you could try a service like Twilio which makes sending and receiving SMS from your apps easy via a REST API. [Full disclosure: I work at Twilio, but I was a long-time satisfied customer before starting here.]