Is it possible to set up a post form that will pull mobile phone numbers from a custom field in a custom content type and then send notifications on form submission to all recipients as a text instead of as an e-mail? I'm guessing it is unlikely we can do this but I thought I'd ask anyway and then make it a feature request in case we can't.
I know that you can send e-mails that will be received as texts if you have the mobile number in the e-mail structure. For example, if I send an e-mail to ##########@mms.att.net , the person with the mobile number represented by the ### signs will receive it as a text message on their phone, provided their carrier is AT&T. So I know we can do this if we get all mobile numbers in this e-mail format. But that will likely require some manual research to get the domain needed for after the @ in the address for every carrier, and we'll have to get our end users to provide their carrier so we can manually edit their e-mail address as needed for each end user.
But I thought I'd ask to see if you have an easier way to do this that can stay fully automated. I don't know if there are any SMS messaging plugins out there that can integrate with Toolset provided recipient lists. We can generate the recipient list for this with custom code your team has already provided for me for one of my other clients. I might need a little bit of help tweaking that code to use the correct field here, but the bulk of it is already there for another messaging system that is already set up and working well. It will ideally use a post form notification to send the message. Either that or it will provide the recipient list in a way where we can just copy and paste it to send with another SMS messaging plugin.
Any thoughts?
Hi there,
Unfortunately, there is no such feature in Toolset and integration with an SMS system or a plugin will be a custom development request that is outside of our support scope, but you can find candidates to implement that here:
https://toolset.com/contractors/
Just to let you know, Toolset provides a Hook that the integration developer can use to know when the form is submitted and what to do with the notification. For more information:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_notification_event_type
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_notification_recipients
You can see the list of all available hooks for Toolset Forms API here:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/
You are welcome to ask for a feature request here:
https://toolset.com/home/contact-us/suggest-a-new-feature-for-toolset/
Thanks.
OK, I've submitted this as a feature request. Thanks for the development info. We're looking into a Mailchimp option for this that might work. We may still try to implement this using the mobile number in an e-mail format, which would work with your system. I'll file another ticket if/when we get to that point.
