In SAP Marketing, I have the standard template for SMS messages in Content Studio.
I want to insert a link in TEXT-block of this template and send it via SMS, but there's a problem: for TEXT-block, there are no properties active that are necessary, except of "Insert Attribute". I can't find "Insert Link" attribute.
SMS Template in Content Studio (What I have now):
I want to have this result in the end because there's a property which makes it possible to insert a link in TEXT-block:
Instead of emails, where you send HTML, SMS contain simple text.
If you click on the link-button in emails, the editor inserts an HTML-element:
LINK TEXT
But luckily, most of the smartphones are highlighting links without you have to mark it as a link.
This is very similar to what happens with phone numbers or dates in SMS.
So you just have to paste in your link and you are fine.
Here you see how my iPhone renders an SMS from my provider informing me about my left data volume: nothing. :-(
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Trying to share a calendar event over SMS. The text contains the datetime of the event, which iOS picks up as a link, which opens iCal (Create Event, Create Reminder, Show in Calendar, Copy Event).
When a user taps "Create Event" - it just creates an empty cal event for the datetime. Is there a way to auto-fill the event with details when the users taps "Create Event"? Perhaps through deeplinking a URL or similar?
The behaviour you describe is iphone ios doing some natural language processing and recognising that 'hey that looks like a date or time and location'. When you click on the text, it will offer to create the event but one still has to fill in the rest of the details. It is not yet clever enough to work out the Event subject, and may not be that good at it if it tried.
There is a term 'Rich Media Messaging'(RMM) which aims to get past the limitations of the basic sms (short message system). This is hard if one is looking for universal phone and phone provider support as not all phones do multi media messaging. RMM appears to basically be a combination of multi media messages and short links. So basically there is no 'markup' for simple text messaging.
The only reliable universally acceptable way to 'text' an event via sms, an event with full details that would be recognised by all smart phones is via a link to an ics file. As the standard SMS length is only 160 characters and most hyperlinks are pretty long (usually between 40 to 100 characters), they can eat up necessary space in your message. Unicode characters could use that up quicker, so a user friendly short link might be best.
The ics file has all the info to pass to the system:
the text/calendar mime type tells the system it's got events inside so pass the file to the calendar app
then the contents of the ics file inform the calendar app of all the bits of the event as per the RFC5545.
For demonstration, I texted the "5 May yoga" single event link from this page https://test.icalevents.com/agenda/ to a phone. That ics file only contains a single event.
When one clicks on the link in the text message, the smartphone does as described above and suggests to create an event. This method has the benefit that one could perhaps track the clicks to the short link.
So I use Twilio to send out SMS messages when someone registers a certain form. It sends the first message out but I want to know if it's possible to redirect the message to my actual phone number. For example, the Twilio number sends out the mass text and I want to be able to get any replies to that Twilio number redirected to my real phone number. Is that possible?
I have tried to look at other people's things and have yet to find anyone who has asked my question and I have no idea where to go from here.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You can do that with Twilio Studio! More details here, but in short:
Access the Studio Dashboard in your Studio Console.
Make a new Studio flow by clicking the + sign.
Pick a name for your flow and click "next".
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Click "Start from scratch" followed by Next".
From the "Widget Library" on the right, drag and drop a "Send Message" widget into the flow.
Click and drag the "Trigger" widget’s "Incoming Message" lead to connect it to the "Send Message" widget.
Click the "Send Message" widget to show the widget's options on the right. Type in the MESSAGE BODY field:
Under the SEND MESSAGE widget options, scroll down to click to expand MESSAGING & CHAT CONFIG. Type in the desired destination (number to forward to with E.164 formatting) in the SEND MESSAGE TO field, and then click Save.
Select "Publish".
To activate the Studio flow:
Visit the Active Numbers page in your Console.
Select the phone number you want to edit.
Scroll to the Voice & Fax section to modify the phone number’s routing like so:
Select "Save".
Let me know if this helps! <3 :D
My application (a DMS client) has strong ties to Microsoft technology, so my customers are on average much more likely to run Outlook for iOS than the default iOS Mail client.
However, Outlook does not respond to the MFMailComposeViewController, so that basically leaves two approaches on the table for sending email from the app:
Use the msoutlook:// URL scheme to open Outlook. This supports pre-populating recipients, subject, and a HTML styled body text, apparently without a maximum length. However, it does not seem to support attachments.
Use the UIActivityViewController (i.e. the "sharing" interface), which does allow for attachments (hurray!), but I don't know if it's possible to pre-populate any of the fields other than the content...and the sharing dialog itself is really unpleasant UI, interrupting the user flow with a complex choice.
Word (for iOS) presents the user with the following flow that directly opens a document as an attachment to a new email in Outlook. Assuming they don't use any private APIs, how are they doing that?
I am using twilio to send SMS messages to phone numbers. What I am having problems with is making sure that once a user gets the message the preview of what is at a certain link actually loads in the message the user sees on the phone.
What is the proper way to send a link that automatically shows the preview?
EDIT:
I tried the open graph api. Apple does have a tech note on that. But, then, why does this link provided a proper preview in messages when I send this link to another phone? It works, and it does not use open graph.
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a couple of things you can try
have the link at start of the message or end of the message
the link should be properly formatted with either http:// or https://
iOS uses The Open Graph protocol to support what image to show in the link . http://ogp.me/
I have been looking for a way to send a hyperlink of a URL with a different appearance to a mobile phone via SMS or MMS.
The only example of this that i can think of is the following:
[url=http://www.google.co.uk]Click Here[/url]
So the above code will show:
Click Here
when you click the 'Click Here' link it will open up http://www.google.co.uk.
Is there anyway that this can be replicated by using SMS or MMS?
As far as I know, there is not a generally accepted specification for rendering text messages with modern content. Though certain mobile operating systems (or rather messaging applications to be precise) might support inline links, it is not fail-proof and it won't work on every device.
Also, those smart-ish applications would not rely on a custom syntax but rather search for urls and make those clickable. That means it's not possible to set a custom text for a hyperlink in this context.
You can´t include hiperlinks in text messages, although most mobile browsers allow click in links. Also You could send a wap push (it´s a special binary sms) that it includes one link.