To send text notifications start creating news or site alert content or find existing news or site alert you would like to send a text notification from.
While on the content edit page, find the notification section that is located on the right-hand side of the page called Notification System:
Select Send Text Message check box to send a text notification.
Once the Send Text Messages option is selected, additional options are displayed under the Notification System section.
- Text Topic – The drop-down field selection is required. Choose the topic you would like to send the notification for. Subscribers that are subscribed to this topic will receive text notification.
- Content – The field is required. Enter a brief message for the text notification. This field content is sent in the text notification.
Note that the text message notification will also include a link to the page from where the notification is sent from.
The following is an example of the screen of the filled out text notification:
To send text message notification make sure the content state is set to Published. Only published content notifications will be send out. The content state option is located on the top right of the screen next to the Save button.
To save the page content and send the text message notification, click on the Save button at the top right.
After the content is saved the website page will display information about the prepared notification:
To view the text notifications that were sent out or pending notifications, navigate to Content -> Notifications -> Texts. The Text Notifications page will display the sent or prepared for sending text notifications:
The text notifications can be filtered by the message text and the notification topic.