Agree with Alejandro by using WAP Push,
I've ever made an mobile workflow application using WAP Push. The idea
is simply like this:
Initiate job -> participant will be alerted by WAP Push... after working
on WAP Page ... user submit form
and system will alert for next participant and so on :)
Alejandro Guerrieri wrote:
Stephane,
SMS protocol does not have any transaction-oriented capabilities built
in. I'm afraid you'll have to come up with a solution more or less
"painful" for your users:
1. You could, as mentioned, ask the client to include a tracking number.
2. If you don't expect to send many requests at the same time to the
same guy, You could implement some "time-window oriented" mechanism,
that is: any reply you get during the X minutes after sending message
#432 to number 123 is supossedly regarding message #432. After X
minutes, you consider the #432 abandoned even if 123 replies to it.
This works as long as you don't have more than one "open" message with
a particular ANI. In that case you could indicate that he must include
the tracking number... (here the painful part comes to developing the
logic for this, nbut it's absolutely doable).
3. You could implemente the messages as wap pushes (with the tracking
number encoded) and redirect the client to a wap form where he can
reply ot them.
Hope it helps,
Alejandro Guerrieri
On 8/16/05, Stephane Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
What I'm trying to do is to track messages when they are replied to. The
goal is to use Kannel to send alerts to people and let them a chance to
acknowledge them (will be used With Nagios for those who know it). How can I
put some kind of transaction number in a message sent, so that I can track
it back when it is replied to. For example :
Send message "HOST X IS DOWN" to number 123
Send message "HOST Z IS DOWN" to number 456
Guy with number 123 replies "ACK I will take care of it"
Guy with number 456 replies "NACK got no time now"
I want to create two sms-services, ACK and NACK and log their answer in the
system, but how can I match messages sent with replies ? I could add an
alert number to the text, but users would have to retype that number when
replying, that's painful.
Hope I'm clear enough.
Thanks for any hint.
Cheers
Stephane
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Regards,
Ady Wicaksono
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