Creating A Broadcast Message For Future Use - Multitech MultiModem iSMS SF100-G Administrator's Manual

Chapter 6 – SMS Examples

Creating a Broadcast Message for Future Use

In this example a school wants to be prepared to send a message that school is closed for the day. The Administrator
creates a Trigger Message word Snow and the following Broadcast Message: School is closed today. This example
assumes that a Group called Parents has been created and that SF100 stands for the Administrator's cell phone number.
Go to the Triggers > Add a Broadcast Trigger window.
1.
a. Enter Snow in the Trigger Message word box. Trigger message words or codes are not case-sensitive.
Enter the Broadcast Message. In this case the message is School is closed today.
2.
Select the Group that receives this message. In this case the group is Parents.
3.
Check the Authenticate box to indicate that this message can be sent by an authenticated user only.
4.
The Authentic User selected to trigger this message is SF100, the Administrator's cell phone.
5.
Note: If you plan to use authentication on any entry in the address book, enter the phone numbers of these individuals
exactly as how the Cellular Network presents Sender Number information (usually that is with a + symbol followed by the
country code and then area code). Please see NOTE in the Address Book section of this guide. This allows authentication
to work properly by allowing the MultiModem iSMS box to successfully match the cell phone number of a received trigger
message with the phone number in the Authentic List.
Select a Priority level (in this case, High was selected).
6.
Click Save. The following window displays the Broadcast Message saved for future use.
7.
To trigger the broadcasting of this message to the Parent group, the administrator sends the SMS text message word
8.
Snow from his cell phone to the MultiModem iSMS. When the MultiModem iSMS receives this message, it compares
the Administrator's cell phone number with the Authentication List and if they match, it broadcasts the message to
everyone in the Parent group.
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