Bruce, Do the reps have to dial in to request the data to be sent? Can the data be sent anyway - if they are unavailable the message is stored on the phone or with the service provider?
Have you thought about writing the SMS information to a file/directory on a server that has a resident program monitoring for data in this location and if items are found that require sending by SMS then the routine immediately sends the required data to the required telephone number. I know of software that uses this method to send fax, email and SMS messages to clients/employees. You simply send the data as ascii text with a properties record saying how it is to be sent and the telephone number or email address to use. The software is independent of any multi-value platform (it's a VB program). The software is called OSMOSiS-eFax (it was originally called mv-eFax - http://www.mv4gl.com/Prod_mv_eFAX.shtml - but now has SMS communication added) see www.sc-sys.com about OSMOSiS. IHTH Regards, Neil. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Lunt Sent: 26 July 2005 23:47 To: [email protected] Subject: [U2] UD to SMS Hi All, A couple of months ago you all helped me with CALLHTTP and now I am back to ask for help with SMS. The CALLHTTP is working great, btw. We have a division in Malaysia that wants to be able to have their outside sales reps check on their monthly sales goals using cell-phones and/or pda's. The question I have for the U2 world is if this has been done already and if you can give me some guidelines on what to do and what not to do? We see this as either: 1. exporting the sales goals data to an external server that is accessible from the web 2. have the phone send a query to the Unidata system and then receive a reply with the individual's data, on demand. 3. any other ways to approach a solution to this problem, of course. :) The problem that I see with option 1 is that even though we may have some sales reps in the field that want to use the new remote query ability there could be many more that are just as happy without doing anything different from what they already have. If we off-load the data to a web-service then we either have to update everybody's data (possible security concerns) or mark the records of the sales reps that want to participate (still some security concerns) and off-load only the marked ones. Option 2 is more granular but do I have to worry about different protocols or standards used by the different phone services? I hope I have explained myself well enough. Oh yeah, can anyone recommend a good resource for the programming of SMS? Thanks for any and all assistance. Regards, Bruce Lunt ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 25/07/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 25/07/2005 ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
