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About
Campus Café offers an API with Message Media, a third-party vendor that facilitates text messaging otherwise known as short message service (SMS). Once the API is enabled, Campus Café will accommodate bidirectional text messaging. Campus Café clients are responsible for opening an account with Message Media.
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After adding STParms, refresh the cache by navigating to Admin > Refresh Data Cache > reload data
Create Workflow and Activity
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The person receiving the text message must have a mobile (MBL) phone set up on the address/phones page.
If Custom Control has been set to respect the text allowed box on the person Bios page, the box must be checked.
Message Length and Character Counter
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Text Message Character Counter is an enhancement that is due out in a future release of the software. |
Message Media limits text message length to 160 characters. Any texts longer than 160 characters will be sent as multi-part messages. Campus Cafe includes a character counter in the lower right hand corner of the pages where a text message is sent: the Workflow definition page (when Scheduled Text or Text Sent On Add are the delivery mode), the Text Message composition window when clicking the Cell Phone icon from the student profile page, and the Activity Detail Page, when sending a response text out of an existing text message workflow. The counter will update up to 160 characters. Any message content over 160 characters will display the message “multi-part message” in place of an active counter.
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Send a Text to One Student Using the Profile
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