SMS subscriptions service

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Posted by overby on April 3, 2010 at 6:58pm

Great work on SMS Framework - did install, connect to Clickatell and got first message in less then 10 min :)

We are looking to create a SMS subscription service on Drupal. Here is the basic requirements:

  • Users can subscribe and opt-out using sms
  • Users can subscribe on site
  • Users will get a daily message starting with message 1 the first day and message 2 the second day. A subscriber starting day 5 will start with message 1 ... and so on

The first challenge for me is figuring out how to make a workflow that will trigger a message each day. The idea is that there will be multiple messageques (containing same nodes).

Anybody got similar experience or can point in the right direction?

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Try Scheduler along with

Posted by frazras on April 4, 2010 at 2:09am
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Try Scheduler along with Workflow, Rules or Actions.

Thank you for your feedback

Posted by overby on April 4, 2010 at 5:25pm
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Thank you for your feedback and proposal - will try to go that route! TX!

Days since registered ...

Posted by andybill on April 4, 2010 at 2:59pm
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http://drupal.org/node/135231
http://drupal.org/node/149234

Looks like something derived from those two will let you see how many days since someone registered, and if you can get that into a VBO for SMS Bulk to process, you could then send a message to everyone who has been here x days. By changing the SMS Bulk Example module you can preset the message text, and using rules/actions you can programmatically execute the view - I think you may still have to approve the message to actually send though.

I've been looking at a similar process but using OG Notifications, at the moment I'm trying to work out how to do "monthly reminder" notices for group membership that would vary according to how many months someone has been subscribed. As I'm only looking at monthlies, I can do "first month of membership", "2 month members", etc; not sure I'd want to do that for daily - but it would let you preset the message text only once. I've just posted about that on the OG list, so if I get anything of use for this I'll condense it and add on here.
Andy

Thanks for feedback and

Posted by overby on April 4, 2010 at 5:27pm
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Thanks for feedback and proposal - will check it out.

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