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Sending Text Messages

Bikeman17
in Calculation Engine (Define Fields)

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Hi there I was wondering if it was possible to send a text to a phone. If so, what functions are involved to make this possible?

Thanks for your tips

Hi Bikeman17,

You need to use 3rd party services like Twilio.com.

Using their API and and open URL, you can post the text to Twilio and they will send that to a phone number as an SMS or MMS. Twilio also can post back any received message to FileMaker. You would need to host the file on FM server and have PHP enabled. Then you may set Twilio to send the replied messages to FM server and run a PHP script to simply add a record in the target table of FileMaker to store the received message.

There are number of posts and guide documents to help you how to integrate Twilio with FileMaker.

You say any of that shit no we didn'tWatching this video would give you some ideas:

 

 

Good luck,

 

 

 

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Thanks for the relevant information. Very interesting!

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