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Aug 4, 2022 6:24:11 AM
Dec 19, 2017 9:56:19 AM
So, how to send KPI results to a user by SMS rather than email so you can get a result like the one below. This could be used for daily or hourly status messages to Senior Execs, for operation direction to the salesforce or the distribution team, or for conditional based alerting when KPI results meet a certain criteria. There are so many use cases here... I've also added an example in Arabic (google translate version) to show right to left language capability in the SMS.
It's actually reasonably simple but you do require a 3rd party SMS gateway to perform the translation of an email to an SMS. All telco operators offer these services, and a number of other web based operators too, and all work in much the same way as the example here.
Step 1 - Setup your SMS Gateway provider account
I have used TextMagic for this example as it's easy to work with and offers a free trial with some minimal credit for testing.
Other services that will work in a similar way (and may be cheaper)
SMS Country - Send your email via SMS- Email to SMS- SMS Country
SMS Global - Email To SMS | SMS To Email | Email Text Messages | SMS from Outlook
Text Anywhere - TextEmail – Send SMS Text Messages from any Email system and Microsoft OMS – TextAnywhere.net
Esendex - Email to SMS - Send and receive SMS via email - Esendex
Step 2 - Setup your NPrinting instance with the user to receive the SMS
Your SMS gateway provider will indicate the email format for the mobile number you wish to send the SMS to. For example, with TextMagic the format is 4470851234567@textmagic.com for the telephone number +44 7085 1234567 (a clearly made up number).
This is the email address to assign to the user in NPrinting. Note: It is likely that you will have 2 NPrinting user accounts for a single individual if they receive SMS alerts and other reports from NPrinting (hub, newstand, email attachments etc).
Step 3 - Create your HTML report (or import the one attached along with the example application)
The HTML report is very simple. It looks like this in the NPrinting Designer Editor window and is looking at Gauge objects as tables.
Step 4 - Setup your Publish Task
Go through the normal setup process.
Step 5 - run the publish task and receive the SMS
It's pretty easy eh!
Troubleshooting:
how to setup SMS Gateway Panel Please anyone Help me please...
Hi, you'll need to check whether this particular gateway service has an email to SMS API service. That is the one that will work with NPrinting. Any other API calls will need to be made from the script using either the web or REST connectors.
will it work for the qlikview Nprinting?